J D Vance has struck a nerve.\u00a0 Recently I was at a town event and I was in the presence of a woman who has cats.\u00a0 I know this because she was talking about her cats to anyone who would listen.\u00a0 And she was looking for support from other people with cats as she talked about Fluffy or Tabby or whatever her cats were named.\u00a0 But suddenly she changed gears and started getting angry about someone who had some kind of video on-line about killing cats.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it showed cats being killed (doubtful) or just talked about it as a thing that happens.\u00a0 But she was very stirred up about this.\u00a0 She got quite agitated and started swearing about it.\u00a0 And then she changed gears again and started talking about J D Vance talking about childless cat ladies.\u00a0 And that got her even angrier and she started swearing at him and saying you don\u2019t mess with cat people.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, this was very off-putting.\u00a0 Seeing an adult in a public place lose control over a discussion about her cats was very unpleasant.\u00a0 It\u2019s always distasteful being witness to public displays of mental illness.\u00a0 But what I realized later was that this was a form of virtue signaling.\u00a0 There was a group of leftists close by and this performance was a public affirmation that disrespecting childless cat ladies will be answered by childless cat ladies flipping out in public.\u00a0 It reminded me of that famous video clip of the androgynous, shapeless leftist in a yellow raincoat howling nooooooooo! at the sky after Trump\u2019s election in 2016.\u00a0 It was this primal scream therapy routine, probably more for the benefit of those watching than for any actual emotional release for the screamer.\u00a0 It was validation of their point of view.<\/p>\n
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