The hypocrisy so prevalent among the political left really grinds my gears, if only because it is virtually impossible to escape the ravings of these demented individuals.
I try to avoid social media — megaphone for morons – never having posted on Facebook or Twitter/X. I do have a Twitter/X account, necessary in the past to get communiques from an investing service to which I subscribed. But, to repeat, I never, ever, post. I do check Facebook Marketplace for car ads and read investing posts on Twitter/X by a select few investment gurus I trust.
Yet, still I am unable to escape the wildest, most ridiculous leftist posts because so many otherwise legitimate sites are eager to share them, or so many friends feel the need to call these absurd screeds to my attention.
Sometimes, the exposure is mere, unfortunate, happenstance, like the other night when I got on to Facebook to look at car ads – using my brother’s account – and was greeted by a local legend in his own mind pontificating about gasoline prices.
This arrogant prig, who is not at all like his mild-mannered, humble brother, is a hypocrite with a capital H. I have been led to believe he has been making six-figure salaries for decades.
Yet, there he was, whining about the price of gasoline.
In a past blog post, I did the math that an average driver, driving the average miles and having a vehicle that gets average MPG, would pay about $13 more a week if gasoline prices were $1 higher per gallon.
Unless this guy is a complete money-management moron, that $13 a week would be chump change to him. Yet, he rushes to Facebook to whine in the interest of making a snide, sarcastic political statement.
Whey are these people always operating under the delusion that they are the smartest people in the room, that their thoughts are righteous and those who disagree are racist, misogynistic Nazis not fit to draw breath in this world that revolves around the hypocrites?
If smugness was a disease, they’d be on the terminal list.
And I think of the Pollyannas who envision a day when political left and right can bury the hatchet and live together in calm and thoughtful disagreement without the current rancor.
Get real, people. The hard left Democrats have a lot in common with Iranian zealots, hardcore Muslims of many stripes, and homegrown communists and socialists who fail to answer the most basic question, that being if socialism and communism are so great, how come they fail miserably anywhere, and anytime they are tried, at least in terms of making life better for the populace in general.
If you are in the Bernie Sanders socialism echelon, owning three houses and flying around the country on private jets to decry oligarchs, socialism is a winner.
If you are a starving Cuban driving a 50s era Chevrolet in Havana, not so much.
And, if you are a well-off type crying crocodile tears over gas prices, allow me to suggest a trip to Havana, on a one-way ticket. You might benefit from some real-world experience there and gasoline prices would be the least of your concerns.
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