Perhaps he's symbolic of a liberal/elitism paradox: In both the UK and US, at least, people (tend to) tend to the left more as they get richer, and conversely those with comparably less wealth (material and educational) tend more towards a certain strain of right-wing thinking.
A kind of pseduo-elitism - the quest for Celebrity and Status - tends to pervade much of the class-in-itself, so possibly some variety of elitism and populism go hand-in-hand...
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:17 pm (UTC)A kind of pseduo-elitism - the quest for Celebrity and Status - tends to pervade much of the class-in-itself, so possibly some variety of elitism and populism go hand-in-hand...