From Trump to Brexit, the shocked reactions of the media-elite class have all revolved around one common idea: Just why won’t those damned peasants do as we tell them? The left, who once at least pretended to champion the cause of the common people, are now unashamed elitists.
It was ever thus, really – you only have to read socialists like the Bloomsbury Set sneering at working-class types – they’ve just stopped bothering to even try and hide it. When Hillary Clinton smeared the working-classes as “deplorable”, the mask was off. The left just hate working-class people – especially if they’re white.
We see it again in the lockdown panic: multimillionaire celebrities, politicians, and public servants with guaranteed jobs, finger-wagging working people to “stay home”. Millions of once-working people who are worried about such trivialities as food and keeping a roof over their heads are sneered at.
In state capitals across the country, citizens are protesting the continued coronavirus lockdowns. A CNN critic calls them “COVID-19 deniers,” notwithstanding that the science they allegedly deny still lacks conclusive answers to some of the most fundamental questions about the coronavirus.
In the past week, demonstrations have broken out in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Washington[…]More protests are planned for this week.
The left-elite’s reaction is predictably snide.
Whether it be Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot going out to get her hair done or New York Mayor Bill de Blasio being driven to his gym even as they were imploring everyone else to stay home. On Monday Mark Zuckerberg told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News that Facebook now classifies “a lot of the stuff” protesters are saying as “harmful misinformation” — and that Facebook will “take that down.”
This is a grass-roots rebellion by people deeply worried not just about their livelihoods but shoving off the iron heel of faceless technocrats.
Lost in all this is that the protesters are for the most part simply struggling Americans who have concluded that — at least for them — the cure is turning out to be worse than the disease.
“These protesters aren’t rich or privileged,” says Stephen Moore, a Trump economic adviser. “Most are folks living paycheck to paycheck or small-business owners seeing their livelihoods destroyed, and they are the ones who are bearing the crushing burden of the lockdown in their states”[…]
Feeding the sense of grievance is not just the lockdowns but the way they have been imposed. Start with the overkill. This includes sheriff’s deputies arresting a paddle boater alone in the ocean off Malibu, California, city officials in San Clemente filling a popular skateboarding park with 37 tons of sand, and various states restricting big-box retailers from selling “non-essential items,” which means that you can get three scoops of chocolate chip from your local ice-cream shop but God forbid Home Depot sell you a bag of mulch.
As usual, the left have the conceit to imagine that their opinions are incontrovertible “scientific” fact. Notwithstanding the “science” is little more than guesswork by people who have been repeatedly wrong before and, as the evidence is fast showing, are wrong again.
The protests remain relatively small. But they do expose the elite disconnect with ordinary America.
That disconnect was never better exposed than in Nancy Pelosi’s cluelessly arrogant appearance with the equally cluelessly arrogant James Cordon. “Nancy Antoinette” opened her $24,000 refrigerator to proudly show off her collection of gourmet ice-cream.
For the millions of Americans flooding food banks, the message from the left-elite is simple: Let them eat Ben and Jerry’s.
If you enjoyed this BFD article please consider sharing it with your friends.