The Hostile Abandoned Conservative
For years, the imaginary Bigfoot of the atrophied D.C. progressive leftwing -- hostile abandoned white conservatives -- is now coming home to roost, with mass job losses and other COVID displacements.
“Everyone creates the thing they dread.” -Ultron
Flyover country is angry. They didn’t see much of the historic boom in wealth that coastal elites saw as the country collapsed around Amazon.com and a handful of other giants traded on Wall Street during the height of COVID fears last year.
More specifically, conservative white Christian — the three scariest words Alyssa Milano has ever heard — America is angry, everywhere aside from the coastal cities.
The injections aren’t working, and have caused mass personal conflict and job losses.
The economy is floundering. Biden congratulates his Supply Chain Task Force for progress made, but America’s supply chain should have never fallen to the point where a special Task Force is convened, in the first place.
Many Americans lost businesses during the pandemic, and jobs, and many saw no more than $1,400 in relief from Washington.
Meanwhile, politically connected lobbying firms, contractors, and other interests saw billions in loans, grants, and other funding with little oversight — the pandemic was a boon for them.
Is it wrong to think they don’t care about you, if they really don’t care about you?
Is it wrong to think they’re out to get you — out to fleece you — if they really are?
This weird top-down authoritarianism in the COVID era has been an unequivocal failure, and it needs to end at some point very soon with no lingering legal hooks or limitations.
It’d be one thing if it had restored things to normalcy, and our civilization to a place of great health and ease — but it has done quite the opposite.
Has robbed us of our time.
Civil rights.
Mobility.
Free speech, and difference of opinion.
Bodily autonomy.
Those are big things to lose in such a short amount of time — at least lost for now, misplaced by these midwits — and again… IF IT HAD WORKED, WHICH IT DIDN’T, things would be different… we’d say, oh okay, put this one in the folder and save in case the West ever faces something like this again one day…
But no, it didn’t work. Midwit Health Nazi Autocracy didn’t work at all, and we should return to normal.
And regardless of when or if we return to normal — the resentment has been installed. It’s there. Millions are angry.
One of our closest relatives biologically, the chimpanzee, rips the limbs and genitals off of other chimps and even humans it perceives have slighted it even trivially. Insanity. Joe Rogan has a good bit about this one phenomenon in the chimps, this angry streak.
Capuchin monkeys, in a lab experiment on fairness, banged their fists down in anger on the cage floor and aggressively screeched when they noticed a misalignment in rewards versus what their peer was getting as a reward simultaneously.
Interesting times ahead. NYPD arresting people at Applebee’s for not having the experimental injection passport at the ready — like eating at Applebee’s can now land you in prison, in one of America’s financial centers. Insanity.
Yet we are here.
In their mismanagement — micromanagement, as well as malicious pork-barrel spending, and the absurd regulatory blank check handed to Pfizer and Moderna, and wild incentive misalignment like the former FDA Director Scott Gottlieb now serving on the board of directors of Pfizer — they’ve confirmed longstanding resentments that small-town conservative America has harbored against D.C. elites.
It’s a resentment that may soon see the light of day in the wake of weaker personal finances for many, less jobs to go to, less places to travel to, and less things in stock at the store to buy.
Oh, which brings us to inflation — the coup de grâce of progressives stoking into reality the Bigfoot army of pissed off conservatives they’ve always most feared.
Overly spendy progressive policymaking during the pandemic is now bearing its economic fruit, and when it does, the people will have yet another reason to resent D.C. If a cold winter becomes a hungry winter, off the charts of known civilization we may go.