The crackup of the Elites (2)

Pursuant to what I wrote about yesterday, here is a perceptive Guardian Columnist making a similar point:

The universities, left press, and the arts characterise the English middle-class as Mail-reading misers, who are sexist, racist and homophobic to boot. Meanwhile, they characterise the white working class as lardy Sun-reading slobs, who are, since you asked, also sexist, racist and homophobic. The national history is reduced to one long imperial crime, and the notion that the English are not such a bad bunch with many strong radical traditions worth preserving is rejected as risibly complacent. So tainted and untrustworthy are they that they must be told what they can say and how they should behave.

Disdain is no way to win votes. Crying and complaining about losing an election is no way to win the next. Badmouthing nearly 40% of the country is not the solution to the elite's electoral loss, but it is a major symptom.

When the audience rejects your product, the audience isn't wrong, you are wrong. That's all there is to it.