They are just another interested party among the professional class who use their power and influence against people and organizations they don't like.
Well stated, especially the part recognizing the existence of the “professional class.” That’s just about all we have in this country’s power struggles, and it sort of belies the left’s rhetoric about how marginalized and powerless they are - powerless groups don’t have best-selling books, mansions purchased with donated money, $20,000 speaking fees, representatives in newly created departments at every college and corporation, etc. etc. I’d even posit that to a very real extent, the professional class as a whole has an agenda (“keep the plebs angry at each other while we grab everything that isn’t bolted down”) that is ultimately quite unified among the supposedly disparate members of the professional class, no matter how angrily they seem to be tweeting at each other or no matter how charged the rhetoric is that they use in interviews they give to access journalists.
Well stated, especially the part recognizing the existence of the “professional class.” That’s just about all we have in this country’s power struggles, and it sort of belies the left’s rhetoric about how marginalized and powerless they are - powerless groups don’t have best-selling books, mansions purchased with donated money, $20,000 speaking fees, representatives in newly created departments at every college and corporation, etc. etc. I’d even posit that to a very real extent, the professional class as a whole has an agenda (“keep the plebs angry at each other while we grab everything that isn’t bolted down”) that is ultimately quite unified among the supposedly disparate members of the professional class, no matter how angrily they seem to be tweeting at each other or no matter how charged the rhetoric is that they use in interviews they give to access journalists.