the problem isn't the " elites", people with superior skills and talents...society needs more actual experts across all fields of endeavor to lead. The problem is the number of "elitists" people and groups who view themselves as superior and who believe that no one can lead but them, ....society needs far less of those.  

It has often been my experience that what separates the nonsense of the guy down below from the nonsense of those up above is,  better diction