Owning land is not the part of "feudal lords", what you do based on that makes you one. If you treat workers as 'slaves' and enforce your on laws on them, thats a crime. If you block their education/welfare/reform, thats a crime.
Well that's true for every wealthy person. Some will be good and some will be bad. However we should not criminalize every wealthy person, every land owner, and every industrialist. That is if we are not living in a communist country.
So if some people are voting for land owning aristocracy, it should not be pooh poohed as "the joke" seems to imply.