Column: What can you do about the Trumpites next door?

Yahoo News via Los Angeles Times ^ | 5 Feb, 2021 | Virginia Heffernan

[MtnClimber]

Your neighbor legitimately deserves your thanks for helping on snow duty, but how much thanks?

Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.

How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?

These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren't a lot of anything other than white lives in neighborhood.

This is also kind of weird. Back in the city, people don’t sweep other people’s walkways for nothing.

SNIP

When someone helps you when you’re down, or snowed in, it’s almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world. In fact, you’re more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person’s inherent goodness.

You might end up like the upper-middle-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager. They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944. They did have several portraits of Philippe Pétain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall.

When I screwed up the courage to ask how it was for them during the occupation, the lady of the house replied, “We were happy because the Nazis were very polis.” I didn’t know the word, so I excused myself to consult a French-English dictionary. I was in tears when I found the entry: "polite."

[polymuser]

“She just changed her twitter account settings to “protected”. Now no one but her twitter followers can read her tweets. I guess she got a lot of backlash due to this article of hers.”

The left isn’t actually proud of what they say and do. They hide it and run from it when it is seen for what it is — childish, jealous, spiteful, hateful. They are (adult) children, and they act it. They’ve needed good, hard spankings for a long time.

They really dislike it when they piss in the wind and it blows back in their mouth.