Ignorance is strength

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a clever person in possession of knowledge must be accused of elitism. On the other hand, talking like a monosyllabic ignoramus absolves even a billionaire oligarch of the charge of elitism.

These truths should be self-evident, now that we've realised that the best interpreters of the will of the people are clearly the rich, powerful and well-connected, but Salman Rushdie clearly didn't get the memo:

If you ask me what's an elite, I would think ... of the many, many billionaires sitting in the Trump administration. Here's a government with more super-rich people in it than has ever been in any American government. And that government calls college professors and journalists elites...

...the idea that we're the elite whereas that group of point one of the one per cent that considers itself in some way to be possessing the common touch, that just seems like an absurd comic inversion of reality.

Salman Rushdie - disrespecting powerful idiots since 1989.