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 loss of life from international warming.
Democrats didn’t care in regards to the jobs or financial development they might destroy to appease their local weather gods. “Study to code,” they stated.
Sadly for Democrats, the corporate making the most well-liked 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 chopping off the gravy practice of federal funding of left-wing nongovernmental organizations—the taxpayer-subsidized entities that enable 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 get together. Whether or not shopping for or promoting the automotive was worthwhile didn’t matter to Democrats; for them, all the pieces about Tesla is performative.
In typical progressive trend, protesters weren’t content material with simply protest. No, they needed to burn vehicles, deface dealerships, and vandalize parked Teslas. One wonders simply how a lot carbon dioxide these automotive fires launched into the environment.
There’s a lesson in all this: Nothing issues to progressives.
If forcing electrical vehicles and different fuels on folks means undermining capitalism and imposing degrowth, progressives are all for it. If it means supporting Musk, Tesla have to be destroyed.
If “Consider All Girls” would possibly scuttle the nomination of a conservative Supreme Court docket justice, progressives insist we should imagine all girls. If “Consider All Girls” 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, nicely, now, we should think about nuance and context.
If tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, may cost a little Donald Trump an election, we should have an countless nationwide dialog about right-wing violence. If swastikas seem at a Democratic Socialist rally (on Oct. 8, no much less) or keyed into the facet of a Tesla, nicely, nothing to see right here, transfer alongside.
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If billionaires are supporting a Trump administration, we should combat 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, nicely, that’s simply noble 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 control. They resemble nothing a lot as 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 Seventies-era socialists like Bernie Sanders and their latter-day acolytes like “the squad” are the middle of gravity of right this moment’s Democratic Occasion.
Progressives have turned Democrats into the Occasion About Nothing. It’d make for sitcom, however for anybody compelled to dwell beneath the Democrats’ management, it’s no joke.
Reprinted from The Daily Signal
