Michael Smith - I have saved this 2011 quote from Glenn Reynolds

“The problem we have is that our “elites” — a reader keeps telling me that “gentry” is a better term, and he’s right — aren’t really elite. 

That is, they’re not actually especially smart or well-educated or competent. 

They’re just credentialed. 

That’s not the sort of elitism that commands respect, which is why it’s not getting so much anymore, as people catch on.” 

When I think about it, you can lay this problem at the feet of the very people who caused it - the global "elite" - many are among the WEF wankers, the globalists, the academics and intelligentsia who want to rule the world...