I heard it again yesterday. Someone arguing how stupid it is to claim Barack and Michelle are elitists because he was raised by a single mother and she came from working class. I have linked to this article because it contains the definition of the word.
http://www.latimes.com/...
Am I the only one that cringed when Michelle was making the "we can't be elitists, because of where we came from" argument. To pretend that the only definition of the word is wealth or patrician upbringing is either ignorant or intellectually elitist and patronising in itself. Is the targeted voter only those that only know one meaning to the word? Don't you risk looking ignorant to all those that know better? Do we really have to sacrifice the meaning of a word and pretend we're all ignorant just for temporary political expediency? Time to put an and to this routine.