November 25, 2024

RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE BIRTHRIGHT: The rage of the entitled overclass.

The collective mental breakdown among self-styled progressives since Donald Trump’s re-election has been quite the sight to behold. The subsequent declaration by many that they will leave X, in protest of that platform’s supposed descent into fascism, has made matters all the more entertaining. What a glorious outpouring of self-importance and self-righteousness, combined with an utter lack of self-awareness.

Though such tantrums are amusing, the spectacle has also been appalling. This has been a grim cocktail of piety, sanctimony and belligerence, with rancour and malice thrown in, too. If the cleavage between remote, moneyed liberals and normal people was laid bare by the US election result, the fall-out since has made the gap appear all the more cavernous.

We should have been prepared for this behaviour, of course. We witnessed such sneering petulance from the entitled overclass back in 2016, the year that saw Trump first elected as US president, and also the year a majority of the British public voted to leave the European Union.

Up to then, the elites had silently become ever-more detached from the lower orders, regarding them with increasing disdain. This antipathy suddenly erupted in spectacular fashion. They had grown so accustomed to getting their way that they just couldn’t process or accept that, for once, their demands had not been met.

In America in 2016, there was rage and grief. ‘You’re awake by the way’, said MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, in a clip widely circulated from that fateful night in November. ‘You’re not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, you’re not dead, and you haven’t gone to hell’, she continued. ‘This is your life now.’

Eight years later, the DNC-MSM are taking his reelection even worse: Axios CEO Beclowns Himself Defending Journalisming.

Did you know that journalisming is “hard, really hard?”

That is the message that Jim VanderHai, the CEO and founder of Axios, made to the National Press Club as he was honored for being a Serious Journalist™.

In principle, I like the idea of there being professional journalists who spend most of their waking hours chasing down news and information. After all, the division of labor exists for a reason. Specialization increases productivity, and theoretically, people who specialize in a task increases productivity by orders of magnitude.

Yes, but. Modern journalists, with few exceptions, suck eggs. They are ideological propagandists; most are lazy and self-satisfied, and their concept of the job is to schmooze with sources and repeat what they are told. They don’t report without fear or favor–they serve the same function as Pravda.

If you were on Twitter/X you had a MUCH better sense of the reality on the ground. The downside of X is that you have to wade through a lot more noise to detect the signal, but at least the signal you discovered was likely true. Reading the Pravda media led you to have a totally distorted view of reality.

And then there’s the journalist who believes that Pravda is far too conservative and right wing: Nate Silver Wonders Why Taylor Lorenz Won’t Post Her Age or Birthdate (and She Actually Posts Her Age).

The infantile woman who outed LibsofTikTok’s name and place of business is complaining about someone “directing online hate” towards her.

White lefties have been in a bubble of privilege so long and subscribe to a political philosophy — or, more accurately, a political cope — that says they are owed even more privileges.

They melt down and scream when they don’t get the privileges they believe they’re entitled to, so many people have coddled them these past ten years and granted these privileges, thinking, wrongly, that it was easier to give baby their ba-ba than to stand up to them.

They were wrong. Giving in to these entitled terrorists’ demands only encouraged, get this, more terrorism, and has led to more and more extravagant demands of privilege and deference.

But people are now pushing back. And the coddled, privileged lefties are melting down even more crazily now, because they’ve become so accustomed to getting their own way when they crime, scream, and stamp their feet.

But this 71-year-old woman, whose car was hit by an uninsured Millennial who then fled the scene, isn’t having it.

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As Halperin said, we’re headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We’re going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them “no.”

For some, this will be an extinction burst, and they will begin comporting themselves to the New Rules.

For others: They’ll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It’s going to get a little choppy.

Perhaps literally so, alas: Here’s VDH from last year on “Left-Wing Violence Chic.”

UPDATE:

Heh, indeed. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, here’s a flashback to June of 2014: Brendan Eich was only the beginning.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll