Much of what is wrong with the many Obama prescriptions is not merely that they are leftist. They are elitist, implying a disdain for ordinary people’s ability to manage their own affairs.
Politics 2.0 is as much about populism vs. elitism as it is about Left vs. Right; and the shape of the future will depend as much upon whether the elitist Left or the populist Left prevails as it does upon the Left’s emerging power failure.
I wish this were true of only the Left, but the Right, unfortunately, is equally guilty. Witness the Palin derangement from the "elites" of both left and right.
