aquascoot wrote Today at 1:32pm:



Not at all.



French economist Thomas Piketty coined the term Brahmin Left in his 2013 book Capital in the 21st Century, to describe the growing tendency of modern left-wing parties to overflow with bureaucrats, academics and corporate elites who have little in common, culturally or economically, with the working-class people they say they represent.

Brahmins, a tiny single-digit percentage of India’s population, have long been the most prestigious and highest caste in the world’s largest democracy, disproportionately sustaining its intellectual class.

Kamala Harris on the US presidential campaign trail has repeatedly said she is middle class, but maybe she protests too much. It turns out her mother, a highly educated scientist who migrated from India to the US ahead of her early death in 2009, was a Brahmin.

Her estranged father had an upbringing most Americans would not find normal, either. Donald Harris grew up in a family that owned multiple businesses, including a supermarket, in his native Jamaica and eventually became the first black economics professor at Stanford University, one of the world’s most prestigious.

If Harris loses the election next week to Donald Trump it will fundamentally be because as the embodiment of this new class of Democrat politician – wealthy, highly educated, racially diverse – she has failed to win the support of the American working (non-university-educated) class, which still makes up the bulk of the voting public.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/us-presidential-election-contest-for-workers-votes-may-end-up-a-matter-of-class/news-story/8a490ca0f3aae817299ae4bb98cfbfbb

It's not particularly remarkable to be smarter than Kamala.