Politico Editor Investigates Liberal Bubble and Produces Hilarious Results

Newsbusters ^ | March 30, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Politico contributing editor Adam Wren, who is based in Indiana, was given an interesting assignment; to penetrate the liberal bubble along the Acela Corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston to gauge their attitudes. Well, the fact that almost all of them continue to have an unhinged red hot hatred of President Donald Trump is no big surprise. What is interesting in a most hilarious way are the lives many of them lead. If you had an idea of what a the typical liberal lifestyle is like, you are probably wildly underestimating just how bizarre many liberal lives are.

Wren describes his assignment in My 72-Hour Safari in Clinton Country:

[PJ-Comix]

Apparently it is almost impossible to escape from the Liberal Bubble.

[BenLurkin]

Politico is part of the liberal bubble

[xp38]

I bailed after a while. Too long and I overdosed on the dim idiocy.

[dr_lew]

... you are probably wildly underestimating ...

s/b ... wildly MISunderestimating ...

Carry on!

[DiogenesLamp]

" to penetrate the liberal bubble along the Acela Corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston"

Ping. Civil War stuff here.

[Calvin Locke]

Apparently it is almost impossible to escape from the Liberal Bubble.

It's both a delusional and projective Liberal Bubble.

Trump a kleptocrat? After the Clintons and Obamas? Seriously? Any actual proof about Trump?

[cgbg]

The average citizen of North Korea has more independent thought than the average reader of the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost.

[Drango]

bump for later.

[adorno]

This is kinda like the crooked cop who is taking bribes from the criminals in his neighborhood he helps to distribute illegal substances, and then takes it upon himself to investigate the drug problem in that neighborhood.

[lurk]

It’s a long read. It’s sad that America is divided as it is; it weakens us all.

We don’t talk to each other and if we do we do not listen to each other. Or we avoid each other, too weak to stand our ground.

We all need to go on 2 week camping and driving trips with other Americans. You first.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having lived my entire life in that “corridor” and visiting Harvard Square (yah,*that* Harvard) pretty regularly all I can say is that I'm glad that I'm closer...*much* closer...to the grave than to the cradle.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That article gives me the creeps. I cringe at the thought of traveling there or meeting any of those people. They are brainwashed bots.
 

[Intolerant in NJ]

Finally, I approached two men in their 30s who were sitting a few seats back from mine. They worked in education policy, but declined to give me their names, the first of several dozen D.C. residents who didn’t want to speak on the record...poor guy had to spend all that time and energy talking to a bunch of people all of whom believe their sh*t doesn't stink like everyone else's......

[Rebelbase]

My red zone circle simply doesn’t care anymore. If blue staters don’t understand that they can bug off.

[Gator113]

“Trump a kleptocrat?” Any such claim is absolute nonsense .

[pfflier]

They are convinced that they are smarter than the rest of us and that we deserve their choice of candidates, attitudes and life choices.

If they can't make us obey, then they retreat into their little enclaves and regurgitate their dogma to each other further convincing themselves in the purity of their cause.

[txhurl]

Sexy writing, thanks. May have to look up this proseur.

[Balding_Eagle]

“What voters here have learned about their fellow citizens in states such as my own Indiana has left them discouraged and dispirited that they share a nation with such benighted, gullible voters.”

We’re winning.

[Robert DeLong]

Okay W.

[Billthedrill]

Past sylvan, townhouse-lined streets, over switchback roads near Rock Creek Park, where the driveways were filled by Audis and Teslas and Volvos and MINI Cooper Countrymans, I pressed farther into Clinton Country.

Where does anyone find this sort of courage? Dodging poison darts in the Amazon has nothing on this.

What Trump's election has brought to the fore is something that makes the insufferably complacent commentariat rather uncomfortable. It's the notion that however much they hate us, we hate them back even more. Apparently they consider knuckling our collective foreheads in their august presence to be a more appropriate attitude, and it isn't so much that we elected Trump that offends them, it's that we were allowed to.

The thing is, we're perfectly content to let them alone in this weird cultural miasma, but they are not content to return the favor. And that's what is so very dangerous about this gulf. The notion, for example, that the coastal power centers may make decisions on what is in our gun closets and dispatch armed enforcement agents to make it so is the sort of massive hubris that can get people killed. And that's fine with them because they figure it's always other people. I'm really not optimistic about this.