For many years, Democrats have been telling us that the local weather apocalypse was simply across the nook. If we didn’t undertake renewable fuels and power sources instantly, we might all bake to demise from world warming.
Democrats didn’t care concerning the jobs or financial progress they’d destroy to appease their local weather gods. “Study to code,” they mentioned.
Sadly for Democrats, the corporate making the preferred electrical automotive in America is Tesla, owned by the Left’s latest bete noire, Elon Musk.
They hate Musk as a result of he and his Division of Authorities Effectivity are slicing off the gravy prepare of federal funding of left-wing nongovernmental organizations—the taxpayer-subsidized entities that permit unemployed leftists to protest whilst you and I are at work and that present jobs to in any other case unemployable grievance research majors.
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So, confronted with a selection between saving the surroundings and opposing Musk, what did Democrats do?
Simple. Democrats decided to look out for themselves. Musk must be stopped, it doesn’t matter what it means for the surroundings.
Democrats went from ostentatiously shopping for Teslas as a logo of their advantage to ostentatiously promoting Teslas as a logo of their dedication to the occasion. Whether or not shopping for or promoting the automotive was worthwhile didn’t matter to Democrats; for them, the whole lot about Tesla is performative.
In typical progressive vogue, protesters weren’t content material with simply protest. No, they needed to burn automobiles, deface dealerships, and vandalize parked Teslas. One wonders simply how a lot carbon dioxide these automotive fires launched into the ambiance.
There’s a lesson in all this: Nothing issues to progressives.
If forcing electrical automobiles and various fuels on individuals means undermining capitalism and imposing degrowth, progressives are all for it. If it means supporting Musk, Tesla have to be destroyed.
If “Consider All Ladies” would possibly scuttle the nomination of a conservative Supreme Court docket justice, progressives insist we should consider all girls. If “Consider All Ladies” means acknowledging the vicious sexual crimes of the progressives’ darlings—Hamas—or holding unlawful immigrant criminals who’ve dedicated sexual assaults till Immigration and Customs Enforcement can take custody of them, properly, now, we should take into account nuance and context.
If tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, may cost a little Donald Trump an election, we will need to have an infinite nationwide dialog about right-wing violence. If swastikas seem at a Democratic Socialist rally (on Oct. 8, no much less) or keyed into the aspect of a Tesla, properly, nothing to see right here, transfer alongside.
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If billionaires are supporting a Trump administration, we should struggle the oligarchy; if billionaires are funding soft-on-crime district attorneys, environmental kookery, or different trendy left-wing protest, they’re righteous.
If a Republican shouts throughout a State of the Union tackle, it’s a horrendous and probably racist breach of decorum. If Democrats have interaction in obnoxious shows throughout a presidential speech within the Home chamber, properly, that’s simply noble Nineteen Sixties-style protest.
Progressives don’t care about something that doesn’t additional their very own energy and feather their very own nests. Not the surroundings. Not the civil rights of individuals they disfavor. Not the decorum of the Home chamber throughout a presidential speech. Not getting cash out of politics.
The Tesla episode is simply the most recent demonstration of how progressives care about nothing and stand for nothing besides the proposition that they’re smarter and extra virtuous than the remainder of society and, due to this fact, entitled to manipulate. They resemble nothing a lot as Nineteen Seventies-era Soviet apparatchiks, centered solely on preserving their prerogatives and energy with none concern for these they govern.
It’s no coincidence that unreconstructed Nineteen Seventies-era socialists like Bernie Sanders and their latter-day acolytes like “the squad” are the middle of gravity of at present’s Democratic Occasion.
Progressives have turned Democrats into the Occasion About Nothing. It would make for sitcom, however for anybody pressured to stay below the Democrats’ management, it’s no joke.
Reprinted from The Daily Signal
