The local business and political elite support the government's stance.
Instead, most went along with the power elite's ideology -- a stance Mills called "crackpot realism," which involves dangerous, irresponsible ideas that the public accepts as normal.
And he is doing it without a coach, a stance almost unheard of in elite distance running, or any elite sports for that matter.
The consensus among Iran's ruling elite is that a hard-line stance on the nuclear question has paid off: uranium enrichment, the most industrially demanding part of developing nuclear weapons, has rapidly advanced.
Despite praise for SNP leader Alex Salmond, criticism of the downbeat no campaign and swipes at the "Westminster elite", the paper adopts a strictly neutral stance.
Having decided that the best defence is a good offence, John McCain's embattled running-mate took a fighting stance, sarcastically mocking Barack Obama, media elites, and the "Washington establishment" as out of touch with the values of smalltown America.
On the other hand, their dismissive attitude toward traditional culture and toward moralizing discourse, as well as their highly critical stance toward other members of educated elite, and their pronounced anti-ministerial approach, earned them considerable enmity.
I had a few spirited exchanges with friends or colleagues from the media industry who suggested that me directly or the Silicon Valley elite more generally were putting forth a morally bankrupt stance in order to financially benefit.
But Mr Galán does not have the same ties to the political elite that Mr Pérez does.Much will depend on BBK's stance, says José Javier Ruiz Fernandez, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas in London.
And if Facebook persists in its privacy-hostile stance, then Mark Zuckerberg must be rejected by business elites as a man every bit as toxic as Peter Theil.
