The default American position is not elite. Your place at the starting lineup is guaranteed, and we promise not to interfere with you as you play the game. Whether you win or not is up to you. Train harder, study harder, work harder, and you can go as far as you want. Meritocracy, plain and simple. Government exists in this world view as a referee, and not as a judge. Think of the difference between hockey officials and figure skating judges. The former enforce rules as evenly as possible, while the latter picks winners based on amorphous "standards."
I like the idea that the intellectual "elite" is a bunch of figure skating judges.
From those purveyors and distributors of all human wisdom, the Gormogons.
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