Britain's election has continued a trend that we've seen for a few years now in the English speaking world as well as Israel. The global elites are losing.
Let us define 'global elites'. These are the trendy, hipster urban intelligencia. They like café lattes. They wear skinny jeans. They travel to exotic places. They have tons of education.
They hold all the correct beliefs. They really don't care about bread and butter issues. Matters of defense really aren't important to them. The global elites don't get down into the nitty gritty of tax policy except to say everyone should 'pay their fare share'. They don't have policy opinions, they have attitudes, as George Will once said. Its the social issues that count. Think gay marriage.
The global elites are the people that pilloried Sarah Palin. For them the Sarah Palin 'issue' was really about class. Mrs. Palin attended several different middlebrow universities. To help pay her way she competed in beauty contests. She had five, count 'em five children. Her teenage daughter got pregnant and decided to keep the baby. Everything about Sarah Palin was tacky to the global intelligencia. Why she didn't even hyphenate her name.
Anyway, in Canada, Stephen Harper annihilated the Liberal Party. They're consigned to Toronto and a few other urban enclaves. In Israel, the last election left the Labour Party leader, Issaac Herzog, mayor of Tel Aviv and little else. After the recent British elections Labour is reduced to London and its traditional north country enclaves. Even in America the midterm elections blasted the Democrat party back to the coasts and Chicago.
Just a few years ago we were reading furrow browed commentary about how the GOP risked becoming a regional party and may even die if it doesn't adapt. Well, that's not really happening now, is it? The Democrat party is not in danger, of course. But the hipster, trendy elites that run it are in considerable danger. And they don't even know it.
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