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But I do think if you're living in Minnesota or Iowa or Arizona, the coastal elites make themselves aware to you, so you know that language as well, but it's not the reverse.
The king and the few elites around him had all the pleasures and comforts of the world while the mass majority suffered from backbreaking labor and harsh poverty.
One blueprint for trouble, making collapse likely, is where there is a conflict of interest between the short-term interest of the decision-making elites and the long-term interest of the society as a whole, especially if the elites are able to insulate themselves from the consequences of their actions.
Today we can say that art in Latin America is no longer a monopoly of elites and that it has become a social right, a right for all the people.
It cannot be run by elites; it’s got to be run by listening to the public opinions of peoples who are blogging, who are communicating with each other around the world.
Because through the cloud, through crowd sourcing, through the bottom-up world that we've created, where not just the elites but everybody is able to have their ideas and make them meet and mate, we are surely accelerating the rate of innovation.
But democracy should not only be about elites competing at the ballot box.
If the first wave brought liberation but not democracy, and the second, elections but only for the elites, then it is the third wave that is most concerned with transforming democracy into the rule of the people.
For those of us from outside of Africa, we're familiar with parts of this story: a massive spike in inequality, the product of a decline in good jobs for good wages that were once considered the hallmark of an advanced society; the capture of our political parties by elites accompanied by the hollowing out of civil society that once provided a voice to ordinary people; that sinking feeling that no matter what you do, external factors related to the global economy can disrupt our lives for the worse.
Following the stories of 2 first-time marathoners, one senior, one injured runner, and two elites as they prepare for the Chicago marathon, the film dedicates the majority of its attention to one female beginner whose story is, for lack of a better word, boring.
It's surprising why - we have the current Swedish actor elites, nice filming and authentic outfits and environments.
The whole is a vile propaganda stunt from the evil elites of this world.
I'm tired of these Hollywood elites lecturing us on the ills of industry and capitalism, while constantly reaping the benefits of it.
The movie is interspersed with inchoate dream sequences meant to rival Christian grandeur but merely succeeds in reminding this viewer of the increasingly banal nihilism of European elites.
The book caught the attention of both the elites and the mass public with its heart-breaking stories of the suffering endured by 900 million farmers and its bold criticism of the government's rural policies.
The most straightforward explanation is that elites in those countries figured out that they would do well from exports and associated economic growth.
This is entirely plausible, and may signify – in my interpretation – that more elites now favor growth.
The resource curse means, of course, that Russian elites will prefer to postpone restructuring the economy and modernizing the country’s political and economic institutions.
In fact, such an approach would hurt virtually everyone, not just the wealthy elites who have benefited most from globalized markets.
The lawyers and corporate elites who draft and enact the legislation and regulations that govern globalization are disconnected from those who are supposed to implement the policies at the local level.
True, Venezuela’s immense natural riches have been exploited and often squandered by elites more accustomed to the boulevards of Miami than to the slums of Caracas.
Instead of a simple rotation of elites in power, perhaps what occurred during his time in office was the advent of political leadership that looks, talks, worships, and loves like the people of the country – leadership that identifies with and benefits the millions of Venezuelans who previously were marginalized.
To understand this polity’s absurdity, consider how American political elites would act under Europe’s current system of representation.
With elites everywhere being accused of neglecting “real” people, frustration and anger are now trumping fact-based deliberation.
There is also no guarantee that the previous elites will not be able to re-constitute similar regimes.
This would force the military and the elites to work together with opposition groups that they often attempt to sideline.
Yet it may also indicate that America's political elites are in the process of facing up to new realities and adjusting their view of China accordingly.
Bannon sees this effort as part of a “war” between populism and “the party of Davos,” between the white, Christian, patriotic “real people” (in the words of his British supporter, Nigel Farage) and the cosmopolitan globalist elites.
What they all have in common, however, is reliance on animus, sometimes directed at Muslims, sometimes at any kind of immigrants, very often against the EU, and always against the liberal elites – whom British Prime Minister Theresa May described as “citizens of nowhere.”
But the populists’ goal is not to destroy elitism; it is to replace the old elites.
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