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@Oliver Schick
And I do wish people would stop writing things like: 'The unaccountable elite'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/24/the-guardian-view-on-dominic-cummings-the-unaccountable-elite
The problem with that concept is that it combines the idea of an oligarchic ruling group with the idea of 'bestness', as in many usages of the word, such as 'elite soldier'. In using the word, both meanings are understood to be combined, and so you end up with the problem of why 'the best' shouldn't be the ones ruling. Would you want average people, or even the worst people, to rule? Surely you'd want the best people to rule? So why are you complaining that 'the elite' are in power?
The truth is that these people are not 'the elite', so stop giving them that kind of unwitting conceptual support.