The ‘Highly Educated, Downwardly Mobile’ Voters Fueling the Far Left’s Rise

The establishment polling commentator, Nate Silver, has broken the code on the rise of the big-government socialists within the Democratic Party.Far from being a rebellion of the working poor or an outpouring of aggrieved minorities, Mr. Silver concludes that “the DSA sweet spot” is among the “highly educated, downwardly mobile.”The Zohran Mamdani-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leftwing rebellion, which is mostly made up of well-off heirs of successful families who have graduate degrees, is nothing more than a revolt of spoiled brats.We are witnessing a generational temper tantrum of privileged young people who have suddenly realized that their dream of being kings and queens (and other unidentified gender roles) is not going to happen.Their parents lavished them with love.Their teachers nurtured and coddled them.Their professors set them off on a magical trip to secular salvation by accepting their natural roles as the new leaders of the world.This new generation of left-wing kings and queens believe they are owed privileges for simply existing. The state of being in the Mamdani-AOC world is, in fact, its deepest characteristic. When adherents awake, they know they are already successful and entitled because their parents, teachers, professors, and peers have all told them so. Their successfulness is not tied to any measurable success.More than any current political group, these spoiled brats have had to invent a new language to describe their fantasy world. Like Humpty Dumpty in “Through the Looking Glass,” they are masters of words — and words mean what they want them to mean. This is how “free” bus travel means “bus travel paid for by someone else.” According to them, Israel is bad, by definition, (one of the central tenets of the spoiled brat identity) and massacres by Hamas never happened, are overstated, or are even justified. There are no sexes, only genders. The most vulnerable — and therefore the most virtuous — are the transgender, whose rights must outweigh everyone else’s.Anyone who has dealt with teenagers will understand the spoiled brat tendency to focus on emotions rather than facts, impulsive energy over calm reason, the need for immediate gratification, and the rejection of solutions that take time, hard work, and patience.The current revolt of the spoiled brats is nothing new.There have been cycles in many countries in which a generation comes of age with limited ties to the past and leads to radical demands, analysis, and arguments (which are usually emotionally and morally powerful assertions not open to being challenged).The Free Speech Movement students and hangers on at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s would understand the spoiled brats’ moral arrogance, factual ignorance, and childish desire to constantly refute authority. The students who carried signs at Berkeley would similarly understand the sense of paranoid alienation which motivates so much of the big government socialist left with weird values. That said, many from the Berkeley days later became what the Mamdani generation calls “corporate Democrats.”Imagine you have been coddled from the crib to college graduation by people who adored you, refused to confront you with reality, took care of your every need (while imposing no discipline), and never uttered a negative word about the preciousness of yourself.The key to dealing with Mr. Mamdani is not debating him, it is simply treating him as an adolescent in a temper tantrum.His proposals are nonsense and you can’t win a debate about sense versus nonsense. The key to his appeal is the preciousness of his nonsense. Mr. Mamdani represents and articulates for his people — those who hid from real life and instead sought expensive degrees without considering whether the economy needed them.The rest of the world focused on the serious work of earning a living and paying bills. The brats encountered a cruel, harsh demanding life in which they were expected to work to earn status and respect — as opposed to being entitled to them.It is much easier to go to a Mamdani rally and chant nonsense slogans than to get a real job.And so, we are now experiencing the spoiled brats’ revolt.

The ‘Highly Educated, Downwardly Mobile’ Voters Fueling the Far Left’s Rise

The ‘Highly Educated, Downwardly Mobile’ Voters Fueling the Far Left’s Rise

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