Serious qestion: I feel like I'm being gaslit. Where does the perception of "Democratic elitism" come from?

[DSandra]

65. Do you want an honest answer from someone who is in the bottom 80% and who has lived around them a lot?

Most of the powerful people in the Democratic Party seem to be from the professional class, Ivy League graduates, many of them lawyers, from the coastal states. Many others are other prestigious university graduates, professionals who are essentially overachievers, also come from well educated backgrounds. They get to live in nice neighborhoods, not too far from city centers, get to buy houses, etc...

They are not like the rest of society.

Most other people either have no degree, or a degree from a non-prestigious university (and despite that, only 50% of graduates manage to get a job that corresponds to the degree that they graduated with). They don't go to Whole Foods or Trader Joes (or even Costco) to buy groceries. They live in far less glamorous or decent looking neighborhoods, and often are stuck in not so nice cities or suburbs. They don't read the New York Times, they don't have time for politics, they are super busy with many of them having to work 2 jobs or more just to make ends meet (as well as do gig work.) Most other people also don't have the extensive connections needed to get good or even decent jobs. Their life is about work work, and more work, and when it's not about paid work it's about other necessary work to do, and entertainment when taking advantage of the little time to rest. Their life prospects are a lot more bleak. They have no chance of buying a house themselves as well, nevertheless even save for retirement. Life is essentially become wage slavery, even worse if they have a lot of debt. A lot of millennials are stuck in hopeless lives like this, and prospects for Gen Z also seem bleak.

Hope you get to see this post before it gets deleted since it might become too unpopular.