💯 I also would like us to stop using the word "elite" as well. They are a "ruling class" who are far from elite. They are NOT the best of us. More often, they are the worst humanity has to offer.
That term has to be banished when considered in relation to self-important bureaucrats. It should only be applied to people who have actually put in the hard work to accomplish something to earn the title.
Elite special forces or upper echelon agility competitors come to mind.
conspirator (n.)"one who plots or acts on evil or unlawful designs,”
or malefactors:
malefactor (n.) mid-15c., malefactour, "a law-breaker, a criminal, a felon," from Latin malefactor, agent noun from past participle stem of malefacere "to do evil," from male "badly" (see mal-) + facere "to do, make" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). From late 15c. in the now-obsolete sense of "one who does evil or injury to another" (the opposite of benefactor).
💯 I also would like us to stop using the word "elite" as well. They are a "ruling class" who are far from elite. They are NOT the best of us. More often, they are the worst humanity has to offer.
That term has to be banished when considered in relation to self-important bureaucrats. It should only be applied to people who have actually put in the hard work to accomplish something to earn the title.
Elite special forces or upper echelon agility competitors come to mind.
Well then, just call them conspirators:
conspirator (n.)"one who plots or acts on evil or unlawful designs,”
or malefactors:
malefactor (n.) mid-15c., malefactour, "a law-breaker, a criminal, a felon," from Latin malefactor, agent noun from past participle stem of malefacere "to do evil," from male "badly" (see mal-) + facere "to do, make" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). From late 15c. in the now-obsolete sense of "one who does evil or injury to another" (the opposite of benefactor).