Elitism, the view that there is a unique instant of time with the privilege of serving as the one and only locus of obtainment for all the facts that constitute reality, is a crucial component of most tense-realist accounts. It is by appealing to this doctrine that standard realists are able to square realism with absolutism and coherence: they avoid the result that reality is absolutely constituted by incompatible tensed facts anchored at different times by simply rejecting the putative facts that are supposed to be anchored at times other than the time that is supposed to be the absolutely unique locus of obtainment.