Talk:Political class/Archive 1

The US and Populism
The article is defective by virtue of its structure. The political class in the US is exemplary of the concept, yet the US is not listed in the main section on "Comparative elites".

Following the main section on "Comparative elites" is a section on "Populism" with the US as its only subsection. In that subsection, the term "political class" is only discussed in the context of its use as an epithet by the far Right in the US.

The topic is important and nowhere more so than in the US. The article needs to be rewritten by a qualified editor. ---Dagme (talk) 19:06, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Comparative Elites
This is an extremely poor section. It does not matter if the article is referenced. (Which on w/p tends to lend it legitimacy) if the material that it references is poor.

"Until the 1970s Britain featured a tight-knit political class that emerged from upper-class families whose sons came to know each other at elite "public schools" (like Eton College and Harrow School) and the "old boy" network, based on Oxford and Cambridge, which dominates public life."

This is complete and utter garbage. The United Kingdom (not "Britain") had a very active political class that were neither upper-class nor attended "public schools". They formed the backbone of the Labour party that first came to power in the UK in 1924. I quote from the w/p page of Ramsay Macdonald (the leader of that Labour party)

"MacDonald was born at Gregory Place, Lossiemouth, Morayshire, Scotland, the illegitimate son of John MacDonald, a farm labourer, and Anne Ramsay, a housemaid.[2] Registered at birth as James McDonald (sic) Ramsay, he was known as Jaimie MacDonald."

Not much of a "toff" was he?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald John2o2o2o (talk) 21:39, 6 March 2020 (UTC)