Speaking of these events, the political scientist Ruy Teixeira, interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, said that he thought these seemingly-alarming statements were less a political strategy than a peek into the way Democrats talk to each other, about us, when they think we’re not listening. And that this has less to do with ideology than it does with the way the Democratic Party — certainly at the leadership level — has slowly become a closed society of college-educated elites who are constantly telling each other how much smarter and better they are than everyone else. They don’t just look down on us, they look down on everybody. They have pretty much drummed working-class voters right out of their little Society of the Gifted. If it weren’t for a lot of decidedly non-gifted people who hang around anyway because they want to be seen with the Kool Kids, today’s Democratic Party probably couldn’t even be competitive. They certainly are not an especially appealing bunch.
We have here a rather large group of people who are becoming increasingly isolated and increasingly detached from reality, and because of the business they are in they have their hands on more than a few of the levers of government power. The views they hold — about us and about themselves — are getting very weird. Listen to them: They must save humanity by taking control of and managing the climate of a 6-billion-year-old planet. Meanwhile their political opponents — ordinary people who get up and go to work every day — are domestic terrorists… fascists secretly plotting to overthrow the government. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Democrats are nuts.
How high an opinion of yourself do you have to hold before you think you should meddle in the climate system of a planet? One that eight billion people depend on for their lives? How high before you think you can sweep aside millions of other humans — your political opponents — because they are only vermin?
We have here a rather large group of people who are becoming increasingly isolated and increasingly detached from reality, and because of the business they are in they have their hands on more than a few of the levers of government power. The views they hold — about us and about themselves — are getting very weird. Listen to them: They must save humanity by taking control of and managing the climate of a 6-billion-year-old planet. Meanwhile their political opponents — ordinary people who get up and go to work every day — are domestic terrorists… fascists secretly plotting to overthrow the government. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Democrats are nuts.
How high an opinion of yourself do you have to hold before you think you should meddle in the climate system of a planet? One that eight billion people depend on for their lives? How high before you think you can sweep aside millions of other humans — your political opponents — because they are only vermin?
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