Elitist Condescension at the Oscars

The widening gap between the ordinary working person and the liberal elite establishment, in this instance as represented by the Hollywood/movie community, was on full display and embodied by the 'let's expose the common citizen to our special club' gag as orchestrated by the otherwise very capable and amusing Master of Ceremonies , Jimmy Kimmel. The idea was to usher an unsuspecting group of tour bus customers (not unlike zoo animals toward the center ring of a circus) into the concert hall where the Oscars were being dispensed with customary self-congratulation and adulation, parade them in front of the assembled royal court, and then revel in the utter shock and awe these plebeians would surely express as they realized their sudden good fortune at being in the presence of such elite company. The implicit and underlying premise here is that all 'common' people aspire to the lofty heights the assembled group of privileged 'stars' have clearly already ascended and wouldn't be fun to introduce the 'lowly' to even a few moments of transient contact with this rarified atmosphere.
This exercise in patronizing condescension further illustrates and mirrors the very real disconnection between the ordinary American citizen so throughly ignored, disenfranchised, and economically set apart from the mainstream of a society and  the elite leadership of both political parties for the better part of the previous three decades. This disconnection was seriously acknowledged and addressed by the candidacy of the man from Vermont only to be summarily and consciously suppressed and ignored  by an entrenched, elite, and oblivious established order dedicated to preserve the status quo at all cost and seemingly impervious to the clarion call for a real change of direction as variously expressed throughout the past year, eloquently and crudely, by millions people (not unlike the representatives from the tour bus) throughout our diverse, divided, and rapidly evolving nation.
As we all have seen, the void created by the colossal blunder of the Democratic elites (many of whom imperiously sat in last night's audience) has produced the only remaining 'voice for change' as our default 'leader' and has set in motion a new era of authoritarian rule in ironic contrast to the continuing need of a national constituency hungry for democratic representation and a real reflection of their long-dismissed plaintive cry for genuine recognition. Last night's spectacle served as a cruel metaphor for the myopic vision which has yielded our current state of affairs and our ongoing estrangement from each other.