So you’re saying, in essence, that since the media elites have completely lost their minds, then they are incapable of the mental capacity to recognize their lack of mental capacity?
I am 110% in agrement!
I’ve heard of liberals seeing the light and becoming conservatives. George McGovern is a good example. He switched after he starting trying to run a business. I can’t think of an example of any Conservative switching back to liberal. (Maybe Barry Goldwater but only after dementia set in)
The refusal to take commonsense precautions with the pandemic is a GOP thing that I strongly suspect started out as Lefty disinformation (See Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.).
The refusal by the Proggies to acknowledge that people don’t like what they are trying to cram down all our throats goes well beyond “out of touch” and is instead more about a power dynamic that puts them at the top and everyone else (us) beneath them. It’s not out of touch so much as thwarted egomanicalism that is of course going to try again to instruct us all to know our place and do as we are told.
I’m unsure if they are zealots or just idiots who believe that you can have a functional society with fifty bazillion little prickly tribes of Identity Politics with very elaborate social rules and regulations governing every possible interaction. Everybody will be so busy trying to secure/maintain/figure out the pecking order that nothing else will get done.
They aren’t out of touch, there is a plan, it’s just a really stupid plan. (But this time it will work, don’t cha know!)
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Ayn Rand described them perfectly in the persona of Ellsworth Toohey — in “The Fountainhead.” Shakespeare’s Iago in “Othello” is also this same kind of character. They’re never the principals, but pride themselves on their ability to manipulate the thinking of everyone else.
And then in Atlas Shrugged, we see the sequel of rampant incompetence.
