I must confess that I live like a lib. I live in a leftist enclave in California and in an artsy part of Texas. And it’s not a bad life. It’s quite comfortable. I get all the advantages of a smug, affluent lib life – like good restaurants – with none of the demerits that come from liberal government. Because of course, liberals don’t live like liberals. Liberals live like conservatives. They don’t tolerate crime. They don’t tolerate disorder. They don’t tolerate schools that don’t teach their precious Ashleighs and Kaydens to read. It’s a feudal system, and they are the nobility – the smug, self-satisfied nobility, and it’s no serfs allowed.
Of course, I live among them. I used to be a lawyer. I can live among them. I have a choice. I certainly don’t want to live in the ruins that they’ve created everywhere else. And of course, neither do they. But here’s the thing. These nobles dwell in a bubble, and, in many ways, their inability to see beyond it blinds them. I get to see outside of it. I’m a conservative. I look. But it’s easy to understand how they don’t know what’s actually going on. Of course, they don’t really care, at least not enough to do anything about it, but the fact that they don’t understand anything outside their little world is demonstrated every time they start trying to understand us. They don’t understand us. They can’t understand us. And this is a big problem for them. This is how things like Spencer Pratt come along and sideswipe them.
Yes, they understand that, in theory, there’s crime and there’s bums, and there’s a total breakdown in education that’s creating a massive generation of active illiterates. But they won’t feel it. They won’t see it. They won’t see it when they travel. I see it because I travel like a liberal. I just went off to Chicago to visit. Chicago is a war zone, but not where I was. I stayed in the Loop. It was nice. It’s beautiful there. There were no roving gangs, nobody shooting each other, a few hobos, but not too many. People were attractive and flocking to upscale establishments, enjoying themselves. And if that’s what you saw of Chicago, you would think it was pretty great. The same is true of Paris, where I went earlier this year. I stayed in a really nice arrondissement, their version of a neighborhood. Happy, non-criminal people, hanging out in nice establishments, without trash or bums or scumbags. But just a few miles away, there are whole neighborhoods that are essentially war zones, many dominated by Islamic freaks. You don’t see any of those. Ditto DC, where I just visited. Again, I stayed in a nice area. So, I got the impression it’s a really nice place. But even after Trump sent the National Guard in, it’s still a war zone. And the same is true in LA. Where the liberals are, the crime isn’t. The decay isn’t. The incompetence isn’t, unless the incompetence gets out of control, and then it burns down you and your thousands of neighbors' houses. And then suddenly you’re face-to-face with the reality of what you’ve been making everybody else submit to.
No, what’s the result of all this? Well, the result of this is a whole giant movement of discontent that they never saw coming and can’t understand. Sure, they think those of us who were America First are evil, but here’s the other thing. They think we’re nuts. They literally have no understanding of what we’re complaining about because their lives are fine. And their lives are fine, except for the odd occasion where the reality they create for everybody else intrudes. Then they have some cognitive dissonance, and what you see happen is a few of them decide that maybe everything’s not as great as they thought, but most of them double down. The Pacific Palisades, which burned it down because of Democrat incompetence? In the coming election, it’s going to go decisively for the Democrats who burned it down. It’s not even going to be close.
The vast majority of these folks can’t draw the line between the policies they support and the negative results they almost never see, and when they do experience them themselves, they must ignore or rationalize them. Thousands of people had their homes burned down, and most of them are just going to take it. That’s crazy, and that’s also not our problem.
It’s the Democrats’ problem. They have a party leader, a leadership class full of people who have absolutely no idea what’s going on outside of the small bubble they live in, except in the most theoretical way. Yes, they know crime exists. They just don’t know anybody who has been murdered – and on the rare occasions one of their kids goes down the wrong road and ends up dead, those are the parents you see, forgiving the murderers and asking for leniency. These are also the people who suddenly find their kids can’t get into the top-name colleges because of DEI, and either tell themselves that’s fine or game the system to get their little precious ones in anyway. And on the rare occasions of illegal aliens without insurance smashing into their Mercedes, they’ve got the money to write it off, while most Americans get knocked for a fiscal loop. What they don’t do is rail at the unfairness of what they’ve created. They can’t. It’s that hard for them to go against what passes for their religious faith, which is the absolute certainty in the moral imperative of the Democrat policies they embrace.
We, on the other hand, understand the damage leftism does because leftism has been rammed upon us at every turn. It’s in our schools, on our media, and much of our government. And we’re exposed to our own media, both alternative and social, that highlight it. We understand the arguments against leftist feudalism. Our enemies don’t even know there are arguments against leftist feudalism.
So when someone makes those arguments, and people buy them, Democrats are stunned. They don’t know where it’s come from. “Blue cities are a disaster? I don’t see a disaster. Why, my biggest problem is getting reservations at Chez Smug!”
This is an advantage for us, one we shouldn’t give up. It’s an opportunity to mobilize. Americans can undo the damage this sanctimonious liberal minority has inflicted upon us. We just need the right kind of candidates to capitalize on it. Obviously, Trump is one. Trump won by talking about problems the left essentially decreed didn’t exist and couldn’t be discussed, like illegal aliens. Other Republicans will succeed by talking about the things that the Democrats can’t imagine and therefore refuse to concede exist. We need Republicans strong enough to keep talking about them even when the Democrats scream that they’re racist for bringing up the problems the Democrats created. But what we can’t do is have a bunch of sad sack losers like Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) helping the Democrats by accepting their premises. We need disruptors, not dissemblers, to exploit the opportunity we’ve been given by the “Let them eat cake” crowd. Now, if the stupid party can, for once, choose not to be too stupid to do it.
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