I had an idea for a post and I wrote about six hundred words.\u00a0 But by four hundred I was starting to dislike the idea.\u00a0 I walked away from it for a while.\u00a0 In fact, I watched a movie (\u201cThe Boston Strangler\u201d) and by the time I got back I erased it.\u00a0 It was too much.<\/p>\n
So here I am at the eleventh hour (literally) and I\u2019ve got to come up with an idea.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll just give a slice of life.\u00a0 I had to travel to the enclaves of blue privilege in the People\u2019s Republic.\u00a0 I was in Wellesley and Newton Mass.\u00a0 Now I haven\u2019t been in these Boston suburbs in years but they\u2019re just as hilarious and nauseating as ever.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s been a year or two since I last saw a \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d lawn sign but on one street there were four.\u00a0 And then I looked at the bumper stickers on the BMW\u2019s and every third one had the \u201cWe\u2019re Not Going Back\u201d sign or \u201cMy Body, My Choice.\u201d\u00a0 Now this was in the early afternoon so most working age people were at work but I never saw so many dour-looking old waspy females in one place.\u00a0 It was like some kind of Katherine Hepburn impersonator\u2019s convention.\u00a0 I flushed two of them when my GPS sent me down a dead-end road.\u00a0 When they saw my non-BMW car coming down their little Cul-de-Sac of Lost Souls, they looked like they wanted to call the authorities to put a stop to these riff-raff spewing carbon dioxide and testosterone in their little bubble.<\/p>\n
At the offices I stopped in everyone seemed sedate and anti-depressed.\u00a0 No emotions seemed to intrude and no visible life detracted from an air of propriety. Everyone followed the lines and spoke in low tones and wore the right clothes.\u00a0 It was pretty creepy.<\/p>\n
When I headed out, I took Route 9 west and at some point (maybe Natick or Framingham, not sure which) I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts.\u00a0 And the people were among the living again.\u00a0 Now they were still New Englanders which isn\u2019t normal people for sure but they weren\u2019t the pod people I had just escaped from.\u00a0 They were rude, sarcastic and in a bad mood, in other words the typical Dunkin Donuts staff.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t creep me out.\u00a0 And as I drove along, I noticed plenty of Harris\/Walz signs but not a single BLM sign.<\/p>\n
Rich progressives are an entirely different life form.\u00a0 They\u2019re tucked away in their cocoon and they have no intention of ever coming out.\u00a0 Their hermetically sealed world is completely shielded from Haitian refugees eating cats and geese and more importantly impervious to people who don\u2019t think Trump is a monster.\u00a0 They expect the world to one day consist of nothing but them.\u00a0 How this is supposed to happen they don\u2019t worry about.\u00a0 But to that end they and all their friends send people like Elizabeth Warren to Washington to make sure that nothing ever interferes with their cloistered little existence and the measures needed to keep it that way.\u00a0 It was an instructive day.\u00a0 It reminded me who we work for.<\/p>\n
Updated:<\/strong><\/p>\n Milo Mindbender commented:<\/strong><\/p>\n I also drift into an occasional bubble of liberalism, and they believe in free expression, but can\u2019t contemplate someone not agreeing whole heatedly with their viewpoint. It\u2019s not that they want to stop opposing views, it\u2019s they can\u2019t believe anyone doesn\u2019t see the world exactly as they do.<\/em> I had an idea for a post and I wrote about six hundred words.\u00a0 But by four hundred I was starting to dislike the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1506,4431,339,346],"class_list":["post-30377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-escaping-the-progressives","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-england","tag-pod-people"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThis is the same thing when Martha\u2019s vineyards declared itself a sanctuary city, until refugees showed up, then they used the authorities to relocate them just as fast as they could before it effected their real estate values.<\/em>
\nI hope they get a real eye opener in November, and the ballot exceeds the cheat by such a margin that there is no way to consider it legitimate with a straight face.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"