How the Post Industrial Elite influenced the American election

Post Industrial Society might be delineated as follows:

1. The economy undergoes a transition from the production of goods to the provision of services.
2. Knowledge becomes a valued form of capital.
3. Producing ideas is the main way to grow the economy.
4. Through processes of globalization and automation, the value and importance to the economy of blue-collar unionized work, including manual labor (e.g., assembly-line work) decline, and those of professional workers (e.g. scientists, creative-industry professionals, and IT professionals) grow in value and prevalence.

In the recent American election we were frequently told,Romney represents the 1%;

 the implication being that Obama spoke for "the 99 per cent", for Joe Average.

It is true that the modern Republican Party has become beholden to business and religious elites, reliant on them for funding and moral backing,

But behind Obama buttressing him to reelection was something else and they were the 'post industrial elite.'



So Obama’s main source of funding was not donations from millions of Joe Averages but handouts from "the tech sector, government and the academy" – his top five funders were "the University of California, Microsoft, Google, the US government, and Harvard.  It is in these
institutions and corporations that you find the post industrial elite.

These buttresses of Obama are post industrial in the sense that unlike much of the American masses who make a living getting their hands dirty in carbon-based industries, these extravagantly wealthy elitists can afford to be progressive.

This "post-industrial elite" has been shielded from the harsh criticism meted out to Wall Street grandees by progressive media outlets. The well modulated, overly adjectival Harvard Professor and the 'Stop Wall St' icon Steve Jobs are an easier sell to a passive public than the Wall Street grandee weighed down with bonuses.

But one might term these post industrial icons as the Harvard Professor and and the well manicured  Google executive as no more than tools for conviviality.
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Think about it, Goldman Sachs v Harvard who is the good guy here. However the self-interest of the re tenured Harvard Professor is just as blatant as the Goldman Sachs executive.  One is there for all to see, the other is covert and masked
in 'respectability'.

A 'smart' leftist jibe from the media went like this:  "Mitt Romney looks like the sort of guy who would call your Dad into his office one day to tell him you are fired;"

There was no opposing jibe such as;  "Obama looks like a man who would give your Dad
a job, on hard earned taxpayers money, provided that your Dad would vote for him."

So the post industrial elite don't do sweat and toil, they live in the head and they pronounce
from the citadels of power from Google to Harvard what we should do and how we should live.

They may not be as crude as Goldman Sachs, but their very lack of openness about their true purpose make them infinitely more creepy.