Like many of us, David Strom
is Tired of 'Leaders' Who Hate Me, He points out that
the election is really a referendum about whether experts should run things or people.
"Experts"
and the "transnational elite," for my purposes, amount to the same
thing. These are the people who create the Narrative™ that can convince
people that masks work, that schools should be close, that experimental
vaccines should be universally mandated, and that bureaucrats should run
the world.
They are the people who will look a mother who can't
afford groceries or pay her rent in the eye and insist that the economy
is excellent. They tell us the border is secure, that crime is down, and
that the evidence before our eyes is wrong because they have statistics
that we should believe instead of experience.
Those "experts" hate us, because we don't believe them.
Dissent is not allowed, and if you think for yourself you are a
"bitter clinger," or a Deplorable, or a "fascist," a Nazi, or Garbage,
or anti-American.
Americans should comply. We should watch
Morning Joe, The View, and listen to moronic celebrities because they
have been given the talking points from experts.
They lie. They
commit hoaxes. They engage in brainwashing campaigns. They overtax us,
ban things we want, force us to buy things we don't, tell us not to eat
meat, that truth is "misinformation," and weaponize our credulous
neighbors against us.
The irony is that the left hates liberal Americans almost as much as
they hate us. They pat them on the head, work them up, applaud the
temper tantrums, and value their votes. But you don't hoax your friends.
You don't dump illegal aliens in their neighborhoods, You don't deny
their children a chance at a decent education. If the head of the
Chicago Teachers Union sends her kid to a private school, she has
contempt for the people she claims to love.
The root of the problem is that the transnational elite who run things
and control the media hate you and me. They say it often enough,
although they refrain from admitting that they hate all the proles.
… The real question in this election is simple: do you want leaders who hate you or leaders fighting for you?
In From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?, Victor Davis Hanson adds that
The Democratic top dogs are most likely to embrace agendas that never
garner 51 percent of public support—vast reductions in gas and oil to
lessen “climate change,” open borders to welcome in the world’s needy,
the government promotion of a third, transgendered sex, abortion on
demand without restrictions, the reifications of various critical
(race/legal/penal/modern monetary) “theories,” and radical changes in
the current system (ending the Senate filibuster, the Electoral College,
the nine-justice Supreme Court, the 50-state union, etc.).
Two truisms stand out about the elite boutique agenda: one, when
these theories are implemented—often by the courts, and the permanent
and unelected administrative and bureaucratic state—the architects of
such experimentation do not really feel the inevitable deleterious
consequences.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the Silicon Valley masters of the
universe, the professors of law, the corporate CEOs, and the Bill Gates
of the world really don’t care much whether gas is at $3 a gallon or $6,
or Romex wire is $39 a spool or $150.
Illegal aliens do not go to their children’s schools or crowd the
offices of their concierge cardiologists and oncologists, much less dump
trash on their streets and curbs.
They are strong supporters of teachers’ unions, despising the very
idea of charter schools and homeschooling. And yet they send their
children more often to private schools where students are not the lab
rats of the public school system.
Their ideology is the fruit of their privilege and so is often more
utopian and abstract. Given that if it results in economic, social, and
cultural damage to millions, they will certainly avoid the ensuing
flotsam and jetsam.
The fallout from defunding the police falls upon the inner city, not
the privately patrolled Presidio Heights or the secluded sorts in
Martha’s Vineyard.
Given their income and status, the new Democratic credentialed and
moneyed classes do not care about the struggle of others to live one
more day, clinging to the middle-class vestiges of their parents’ era.
Instead, for the anointed who have transcended the fear of not filling
up their tank or coming up short on monthly rent and power bills, it is
not hard to mandate job-killing EVs or to chuckle over biological boys
in girls’ locker rooms and pride flags flying from the abandoned
American embassy in Kabul.
… the struggling middle classes … are conservative in wanting a
secure border, legal-only immigration, affordable food and energy, safe
streets, and equality of opportunity rather than of result, because they
have no margin of error, lacking the wherewithal of secure home zip
codes, or the perks of gargantuan grocery bills at Whole Foods, or a new
foreign car every two years.
Such conservatism is reflected in the worldview of the clingers and
irredeemables. They accept not cosmopolitism but 2,500 years of
nationhood that remind them there can be no nation without borders.
There can be no modern comforts and security without access to
affordable food and energy. There can be no public society without safe
streets—and indeed, not even public places without sanitation and common
decency.
… These chumps, fascists, and garbage people … are
deaf to the top-down sermons from an Al Gore, John Kerry, the Clintons,
the Obamas, or Joe Biden, which assume the grubby majority is either
too ignorant or amoral or both to know what is good for them and so must
be shamed, smeared, and slurred rather than won over by argumentations
and persuasion. Is not the 2024 election about just that—the haughty who
sermonize and those weary of being lectured?
… Yes, the semi-fascists are lectured that they are racist, sexist, and
xenophobic. They are damned by the credentialed as “white privileged”
who “rage,” as they dutifully go off to Iraq and Afghanistan to die in
combat at double their numbers in our demographics.
… Finally, the unspoken irony of this divide is that the self-professed
elite know that they are not the elite by any definable standard or
meritocracy. Yale gives a higher percentage of A’s on spec to its
students than do trade schools and junior colleges.