Elites

This is also an invariant of history. Gallic disappeared because Gallic elites were quick to send their children to the Roman school. In the same way, provincial elites later taught their offspring French at the expense of the regional languages. The ruling classes are often the first to adopt the language of the invader. They do the same today with English.

They founded a state of which they were the elites, but were eventually assimilated into the local population.

The policies that are adopted are generally those desired by elites and not by citizens.

There is a strong correlation in the United States between the adoption of a policy and the degree to which it is desired by elites, but a very weak correlation as far as the wishes of ordinary voters are concerned.

A Princeton study determined that the United States is either entirely ruled by financial elites or mostly ruled by them, with some ability in the latter case for non-elites to influence politics via special interest groups.

We cannot continue to allow wealthy and powerful elites to push the rest of us around.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

According to your remark, the state appears more or less as a synonym of a detached authority, connected with the so-called elites in politics, media, economy and science, in whom one cannot believe and which somehow stay on the way of the individual. If this kind of thought gets established, it will lead us to absolute misery.

As well-meaning as certain elites may be, should they leave the fate of humankind to the majority?

When the left talks about elites, they're talking about economics. When the right talks about elites, they're talking about culture.