For many years, Democrats have been telling us that the local weather apocalypse was simply across the nook. If we didn’t undertake renewable fuels and power sources instantly, we might all bake to demise from international warming.
Democrats didn’t care in regards to the jobs or financial development they’d destroy to appease their local weather gods. “Learn to code,” they stated.
Sadly for Democrats, the corporate making the most well-liked electrical automobile in America is Tesla, owned by the Left’s latest bete noire, Elon Musk.
They hate Musk as a result of he and his Division of Authorities Effectivity are chopping off the gravy prepare of federal funding of left-wing nongovernmental organizations—the taxpayer-subsidized entities that permit unemployed leftists to protest whilst you and I are at work and that present jobs to in any other case unemployable grievance research majors.
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So, confronted with a selection between saving the setting and opposing Musk, what did Democrats do?
Straightforward. Democrats determined to look out for themselves. Musk needs to be stopped, it doesn’t matter what it means for the setting.
Democrats went from ostentatiously shopping for Teslas as an emblem of their advantage to ostentatiously promoting Teslas as an emblem of their dedication to the occasion. Whether or not shopping for or promoting the automobile was worthwhile didn’t matter to Democrats; for them, the whole lot about Tesla is performative.
In typical progressive vogue, protesters weren’t content material with simply protest. No, they needed to burn vehicles, deface dealerships, and vandalize parked Teslas. One wonders simply how a lot carbon dioxide these automobile fires launched into the environment.
There’s a lesson in all this: Nothing issues to progressives.
If forcing electrical vehicles and various fuels on folks means undermining capitalism and imposing degrowth, progressives are all for it. If it means supporting Musk, Tesla have to be destroyed.
If “Believe All Women” would possibly scuttle the nomination of a conservative Supreme Courtroom justice, progressives insist we should imagine all girls. If “Believe All Women” means acknowledging the vicious sexual crimes of the progressives’ darlings—Hamas—or holding unlawful immigrant criminals who’ve dedicated sexual assaults till Immigration and Customs Enforcement can take custody of them, nicely, now, we should think about nuance and context.
If tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, may cost Donald Trump an election, we should have an countless nationwide dialog about right-wing violence. If swastikas seem at a Democratic Socialist rally (on Oct. 8, no much less) or keyed into the facet of a Tesla, nicely, nothing to see right here, transfer alongside.
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If billionaires are supporting a Trump administration, we should combat the oligarchy; if billionaires are funding soft-on-crime district attorneys, environmental kookery, or different trendy left-wing protest, they’re righteous.
If a Republican shouts throughout a State of the Union tackle, it’s a horrendous and probably racist breach of decorum. If Democrats interact in obnoxious shows throughout a presidential speech within the Home chamber, nicely, that’s simply noble Sixties-style protest.
Progressives don’t care about something that doesn’t additional their very own energy and feather their very own nests. Not the setting. Not the civil rights of individuals they disfavor. Not the decorum of the Home chamber throughout a presidential speech. Not getting cash out of politics.
The Tesla episode is simply the most recent demonstration of how progressives care about nothing and stand for nothing besides the proposition that they’re smarter and extra virtuous than the remainder of society and, due to this fact, entitled to manipulate. They resemble nothing a lot as Seventies-era Soviet apparatchiks, centered solely on preserving their prerogatives and energy with none concern for these they govern.
It’s no coincidence that unreconstructed Seventies-era socialists like Bernie Sanders and their latter-day acolytes like “the squad” are the middle of gravity of at present’s Democratic Social gathering.
Progressives have turned Democrats into the Social gathering About Nothing. It’d make for an excellent sitcom, however for anybody compelled to dwell underneath the Democrats’ management, it’s no joke.
Reprinted from The Every day Sign
