The Dismissed Effects on the Affected

The elites are playing with fire. Their confidence in the order will be countermanded by the cancer they have imposed upon the affected.

I was going through some political fodder the other day, and one particular post by Jessica Reed Kraus from House Inhabit caught my attention. It was a discussion showcasing headlines about herself as a “mommy blogger” and the dismissing of her work by “real journalists” with a hyper-derogatory smugness.  There were several quotes and headlines about her - but for the most part, they could be summarized into one petty sentence.

“She won’t be around after the election because no one will want to read her BLOG about conspiracy theories…”

The arrogance with which they treated her, had a “popular girl” versus the “nerds” vibe to it that wreaked of a horribleness akin to an overly perfumed saleswoman from Macy’s at the half-vacant mall in Irvine. It was awful, yet a full showcase of how people in the press see themselves. It begged a question to me that I have been ruminating about for years.

Why are there two different worlds in America?

There seems to be one we all live in and the one we’re daily told we must believe exists. Nearly every interview on mainstream media aims to convince consumers that what they are seeing in front of them isn’t really happening. If Donald Trump says that migrants are eating the pets, it’s dismissed out of hand because, “Well God, consider the source!”

The things we see happening aren’t going on because it isn’t happening in Cambridge or Georgetown. The sycophants from the media, who have been conveyor-ed through higher education’s propaganda maker will never allow themselves to believe what the plebiscites are subjected to in their daily lives. The disdain and willful ignorance of the American citizen by the media and the elites that lap up what’s propagated before their anesthetized brains, makes Marie Antoinette seem as compassionate as Mother Theresa.

This moment has become untenable. The hard-line division between these two worlds is where the incongruence in our people resides.

I found myself on a long drive through the Colorado mountains this week, rushing up to sign some inane bureaucratic paperwork for a project that consumed 6 hours of my life in order to make sure the “file was clean”. Podcasts have become my friend over the last few years as my work has taken me further and further away from my home base in Northern Colorado because real estate development has become as loathed by the public as a newly diagnosed leper.  I tuned into Tucker - as he is as good as anyone for the evaporation of two hours. In this particular show, he had on an Aussie reporter from the New York Post named Miranda Divine. She was discussing the crimes and misdepornos of the Biden family, which was in its own right staggering…but not the thing that made my mind re-engage in the episode.  In one segment, about halfway through the show, she gave a breakdown of what is happening in America in regard to the divide between the elite and the rest of us.

Her descriptions of how people see things in America were truly fascinating. She talked about elite journalists and how they really believe that these things that are happening to the American people are trivial and anecdotal; that the goals of the elite and the Washington Blob are really too noble to be criticized. So what if there are a few apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado that have been taken over by Venezuelan gangs?  Terrible things happen all the time, but it’s not a story that advances the overarching goal of the politicians and the experts, so it isn’t news. So what if every small town is being targeted by Secretary Mayorkas with undocumented aliens? Deep red towns need a dose of diversity to un-biggotize them anyway. Who cares if groceries cost double what they did a few years ago? There aren’t homeless on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts, or Alexandria, Virginia so inflation is a temporary pinch that eventually you “lower-life-people” will suffer to get through.

According to Mrzzz. Divine, the experts don’t think the effects of the policies they peddle, are affecting anyone that matters. The rest of us are intolerable to them anyway, so what would it matter if a town is overrun by immigrants, or your dollar doesn’t buy anything? You eat crap food anyway so just buy the generic Loopy-O’s instead of the General Mills brand. We’re all fat and nearly dead so order another Happy Meal and move on - there’s nothing to see here. What matters is what happens in the Chic Cafés and Bourbon Bars of Washington. No one really cares about Springfield, Ohio, or Wiggins, Colorado, or Douglas, Wyoming. It’s all a kind of nuisance to them.

But here is why it matters for the rest of us. This system that extorts half of our money in taxes to fund a government and a class of elite megalomaniacs that has outright disdain for the people it extorts it from, has no business being in business. They shuffle their transitioning children off through the Upper West Side private schools to transition them into the inheritors of their elitism. They teach them to obey the authorities in front of them. The C minus parrots that regurgitate the latest blither from The New Yorker or The Atlantic are the glorified babysitters that the Central Park mommies really need in order to unburden what has been with the birth of their rugrat droolers. These over-leveraged, master’s degree ideologues, “teach” them that the world is neat and proper for those who belong and comply.

They venerate and propagandize a two tiered system that insists that the frontier starts 15 minutes outside of their cities and that the people who live in this uncouth wilderness consist mostly of bumpkins and Trumpians - dirty Morlocks who live on bad wages and fentanyl milkshakes.

The government and the people who work in it are the good guys - the heroes in the story of America. The Founders had some key moments they hesitantly admit, but they are objectively horrible people when contextualized in a time of relativity. They obviously had no patience for anything of our culture and thus should be served with erudite dismissal from the more civilized people of the moment.  The only thing that matters is that the state and the apparatchiks of it, are the people deserving of veneration.

And with that, the division continues. Those of us affected by the effects of a punitive policy have to sit down each day and reconcile the Elite’s vision of our reality against the one that is omnipresent in our checking accounts. Our ability to ask questions about a burgeoning reality about speaking, viruses, immigration, suppression, school boards, pornography peddling, inflation, child grooming, or our political desires is unallowable. No person gets to rise above the elite. The reality they want is the reality we get. No questions allowed.

Which gets me all the way back to House Inhabit and my acquaintance, Jessica. Her coverage of the 2024 campaign has been nothing short of outstanding. A “blogger” turned inquirer has made a name for herself and her brand without the help of anything but her own abilities and curiosities. So in lies the smug disdain that the elites have for her. She’s dismissible because she doesn’t have the bona fides that the elite insist upon to be in the club. In their eyes, Jessica created the greatest faux pas of all. She failed to see that there are really two worlds and she cannot belong to theirs. Sure, the Olivia Nuzzi’s of “real journalism” will pretend Jessica is one of them, but in the end, she will be sacrificed at the altar of elite worship…and so will all of us. Every one of us is sacrifice-able to the gods of the faux-noble.

That kind of two-tiered arrogance will suffice for the moment - but when the destruction of a country comes by way of self-importance and ineptitude, there are no gates high enough at the Country Club, or on Park Avenue, to keep harm at bay. The elites are playing with fire. Their confidence in the order will be countermanded by the cancer they have imposed upon the affected.