I don't dismiss the perception, just its reality, and thus kindly suggesting that we do nothing ourselves to perpetuate it!

But I am increasingly wondering if that very perception is not actually helping SR, as it amplifies, in the provinces, the idea that the elite is out of touch and only preoccupied wiht itself (and, to some extent, machist) and it reinforces her appeal.

We'll see...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes