Our political upheaval wasn't caused by mob rule, but by institutions designed to preserve elite oversight

[gracchus]

@lumbercartel

What the ruling Party calls “elites” in the pursuit of removing them from “power” is minorities whose right to vote is threatened, whose even remotely equal legal treatment is threatened, who are criticized for demanding “special treatment” such as not being shot in the streets while unarmed, and (most immediately) who live in cities where even if they manage to get past the obstacles to voting their votes count for much less than others who don’t live in those “elite enclaves.”

Also there are…

@gracchus

the media, academia, (((Hollywood))), Teh Gays, tech companies, feminists, really any group of educated and apparently prosperous people who have the temerity not to be miserable with lives that operate independent of Big Angry Father authority figures.