Word: élitism
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...Carterish echoes come with two potential dangers. The first is that running as the embodiment of hope can lend itself to a certain self-righteousness-what critics have already started to call ?litism. The second danger is that the public will come to see Obama as naive about America's enemies abroad, as it eventually concluded Carter was. Ever since Obama said he was willing to negotiate with those enemies directly and "without precondition," Republicans have been trying to tag him as the son of the Georgia governor...
...taped send-up of Australia's Ashes campaign. Ponting said he wouldn't have minded so much had Tufnell "ever really done anything against Australia." As well as being misleading (Tufnell bowled England to victory at The Oval in 1997 with 11 wickets), the remark betrayed a troubling ?litism: only the greatest cricketers, Ponting implied, had the right to poke...
...only alternative to Bush-style ?litism is classic populism, I'll take it. For millions of Americans who lack jobs, health care, homes and a rosy future, populist issues are more important than the risk that they will die at the hands of some terrorist. Jon Koppenhoefer Springfield...
...traits that do, indisputably, come down to modern Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of ?litism. Mateship - essentially, male bonding - began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate...
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