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I UI pluralist theory and Conceptul Uenocidy.
7. What are the doubts behind the reasoning that the democratic theory of elite class is actually democratic?
8. Mention any three merits of a democratic government.​

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• Do you mean as a Democrat, my theory of the elite class, and are they Democrats? Some are. Most are not. It also depends on how you define elite? Is it just level of education? Was Prep school attending, Yale graduate William F. Buckley an elite (I think so)? Is George Will an elite (I think so)? Both were/are staunch Republican conservatives. Is elite an issue of having money? Most of the top money earners in this country vote Republican. Not all; there are many exceptions. But exceptions only prove this rule…You would run out of examples long before you got half-way through the list of the top 1%.

• Republicans have used this term to create a class war anger in the voting masses, and use it to their advantage, all while calculatingly hurting the very people they claim to represent in order to game the (economic and political) system in their (the real rich elites) in their favor.

• I would remind everyone here that the original founding fathers were all elites of 18th century society in these colonies: Landowners, slave owners, educated. Perhaps the least educated was Washington, but then he was not one of the founders of our Democracy. He just fought valiantly for it, and then (thankfully) established the role of the President as one of servant to the people, not king or master (wow, how that has changed!). And ironically, the one who was perhaps least wealthy, owning the least land and most modest house, was Adams. But then he was very well educated and traveled. Madison? Monroe? Jefferson? Franklin? These were all elites of their time. Not a factory worker, farmer, servant amongst them. All well educated and able to read and write at a very high level for the day (even if Franklin was largely self-educated). And the original qualification to vote was that you be able to read and write and own property, which is to say that you had to be (at least somewhat )an elite to vote.

In politics, a political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement their agenda.