Violate the hypocrisy of the unspoken pact to denounce privilege and wealth while championing social justice, and risk banishment. The Democrats are officially the party of unprincipled elites.
I think what I like most about your writing and journey is the conflict and courage. My career currently has me square in the belly of the beast. I work for a small company that interacts with the highest level people from extremely well known tech companies. I know and sincerely like the Execs I work with at these major players in the modern world. I also am the sole financial supporter for my daughter in college, and need the health insurance my company provides for my family, including my cancer surviving wife. And my wife is doing good, highly underpaid work with Senior Citizens who have no other representation and she couldn't do this without my steady income. So I guess I love reading your work so much because you are a voice saying what I want to say, with a bigger pulpit, screaming "The Emperor is NAKED" since at this point my family needs me to bite my tongue. So Thank you.
You and Tulsi are two women who I likely don't agree with on many political points but so much enjoy reading and hearing a differing perspective. As I have always told young people I worked with, "Don't be afraid to argue and prove me wrong. I like to be proven wrong when someone brings a well thought out, honest, and workable solution and changes my mind."
I honor your courage and empathize with how hard it can be. I am a traditional Muslim working in Hollywood, an immigrant who grew up poor and had to work my butt off to attend schools like Dartmouth. And I have watched as my rich colleagues in the film industry have smugly adopted Limousine Communism to hide their own privilege. Keeping my integrity in that environment is a daily battle.
As always, fantastic post. Wokeness was the perfect cover for greed... but no cover can last forever. Someone or something eventually slips and snowballs.
I aspire to be as brave as you someday! Please continue to speak up and reveal these hypocrisies. Those private school kids in San Francisco had and equal chance of getting/spreading Covid as their public school peers. When you're right, you're right.
Thank you Jennifer, for turning down a pretty sweet offer. If only there were more like you. While I know you believe in free and fair education for all, is it really free or fair? We have known for years that democrats own public education and push ideas that fall in line with the official gov't narrative. What is being taught now goes well beyond reading, writing and arithmetic. Not fair. Property taxes paid by seniors and young, single adults without children, to keep the bureaucrats comfortably in place seems almost gross. Not free at all, in fact, quite costly.
You are one of a rare breed, nearing extinction perhaps from what we see happening around us.
Since you are a stellar example of principled action I wonder if you have spent any time thinking about how money and connection could be put to advantage to expose more of the illusion that perpetrates the near total disdain the elite have for the rank and file citizens.
Perhaps you could speak to people you know who have nothing to loose by speaking out and encouraging them to do so. I am thinking most about retired people previously in positions of power and influence, those who may have a voice or resources they can offer to the cause. The rich retired folk will not loose their cash and privileged simply because they speak out, sure they may loose a bunch of shallow friends , but they like you will gain a lot more honest ones.
If you could get any famous people to speak a few words about the scamdemic if they are interviewed live and it cannot be edited out instantly. Alternately they could arrange or at least sponsor advertising to show how the CDC has ignored their stated purpose by not acting on the harm indications in VAERS or elsewhere. After a comment or two they may no longer get invited to the same parties or talk shows but they should be welcome at freedom rallies with real people.
If they are on the fence about the whole idea, remind them that coming out to support the people after it no longer is needed will look bad on their resume, while helping humanity while it mattered will be remembered for a long time.
I am mostly thinking of the group of people with a name who are retired and could sell their shares in the pharma industries and become wholesome. IN the end the people will win or EVERYONE looses, if they are naive enough to think otherwise, perhaps it would be good to remind them. If human society is destroyed their lives and that of their descendants will also be trashed.
Occasionally, I've had the wish to be a fly on the wall in my ex-husband's dining room. Though he fathered our two sons, he considers himself "mother," with the silky pants suits and tasteful jewelry to accompany his job as the COO in a well-placed tech company. He's brainwashed our sons that his category of people are the most oppressed, aggressed-upon and beleaguered in the world, all the while lying about this very employment to avoid those pesky child support payments. (he got away with that, as they often do) Because of "pronouns" in all of the charitable institutions now, I no longer give to my alma maters or Planned Parenthood &etc. I give to friends who have a bit less than myself, such as a single mom of color, whose ex also doesn't pay child support. I also spend on the restoration of wildflowers in a couple of acres I own. The staff is mostly yours truly, but I have to get windfall trees logged out occasionally, a considerable expense. I consider this work my legacy.
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
One day we may discover the reasons behind the US closing schools. We had seen evidence from Japan, Korea and the EU that suggested that unlike seasonal flu, children were not Covid spreaders and the illness posed little risk to them. Even teachers were not particularly at risk although the elderly ones were; even so, there were ways to reduce their exposure. But close we did. In the process harming the very people we claim to want to help the most - the poorest among us. That fact alone ought to create a guilt trip in all. As Pelosi says "for the children". The least of us with parents forced to work leaving children in homes with limited internet access to fend for themselves.
As usual a good read. Thank you.
thank you
I think what I like most about your writing and journey is the conflict and courage. My career currently has me square in the belly of the beast. I work for a small company that interacts with the highest level people from extremely well known tech companies. I know and sincerely like the Execs I work with at these major players in the modern world. I also am the sole financial supporter for my daughter in college, and need the health insurance my company provides for my family, including my cancer surviving wife. And my wife is doing good, highly underpaid work with Senior Citizens who have no other representation and she couldn't do this without my steady income. So I guess I love reading your work so much because you are a voice saying what I want to say, with a bigger pulpit, screaming "The Emperor is NAKED" since at this point my family needs me to bite my tongue. So Thank you.
You and Tulsi are two women who I likely don't agree with on many political points but so much enjoy reading and hearing a differing perspective. As I have always told young people I worked with, "Don't be afraid to argue and prove me wrong. I like to be proven wrong when someone brings a well thought out, honest, and workable solution and changes my mind."
I honor your courage and empathize with how hard it can be. I am a traditional Muslim working in Hollywood, an immigrant who grew up poor and had to work my butt off to attend schools like Dartmouth. And I have watched as my rich colleagues in the film industry have smugly adopted Limousine Communism to hide their own privilege. Keeping my integrity in that environment is a daily battle.
As always, fantastic post. Wokeness was the perfect cover for greed... but no cover can last forever. Someone or something eventually slips and snowballs.
I aspire to be as brave as you someday! Please continue to speak up and reveal these hypocrisies. Those private school kids in San Francisco had and equal chance of getting/spreading Covid as their public school peers. When you're right, you're right.
Thank you!
It's the right phrase for exactly the phenomenon that you describe.
Many elites value reputational wealth above financial wealth. It is the primary motivation between all of the harm they inflict on their own children and others: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-karent-progressive-ivy-league
Thank you Jennifer, for turning down a pretty sweet offer. If only there were more like you. While I know you believe in free and fair education for all, is it really free or fair? We have known for years that democrats own public education and push ideas that fall in line with the official gov't narrative. What is being taught now goes well beyond reading, writing and arithmetic. Not fair. Property taxes paid by seniors and young, single adults without children, to keep the bureaucrats comfortably in place seems almost gross. Not free at all, in fact, quite costly.
You are one of a rare breed, nearing extinction perhaps from what we see happening around us.
Since you are a stellar example of principled action I wonder if you have spent any time thinking about how money and connection could be put to advantage to expose more of the illusion that perpetrates the near total disdain the elite have for the rank and file citizens.
Perhaps you could speak to people you know who have nothing to loose by speaking out and encouraging them to do so. I am thinking most about retired people previously in positions of power and influence, those who may have a voice or resources they can offer to the cause. The rich retired folk will not loose their cash and privileged simply because they speak out, sure they may loose a bunch of shallow friends , but they like you will gain a lot more honest ones.
If you could get any famous people to speak a few words about the scamdemic if they are interviewed live and it cannot be edited out instantly. Alternately they could arrange or at least sponsor advertising to show how the CDC has ignored their stated purpose by not acting on the harm indications in VAERS or elsewhere. After a comment or two they may no longer get invited to the same parties or talk shows but they should be welcome at freedom rallies with real people.
If they are on the fence about the whole idea, remind them that coming out to support the people after it no longer is needed will look bad on their resume, while helping humanity while it mattered will be remembered for a long time.
Thank you for speaking out.
I am mostly thinking of the group of people with a name who are retired and could sell their shares in the pharma industries and become wholesome. IN the end the people will win or EVERYONE looses, if they are naive enough to think otherwise, perhaps it would be good to remind them. If human society is destroyed their lives and that of their descendants will also be trashed.
Occasionally, I've had the wish to be a fly on the wall in my ex-husband's dining room. Though he fathered our two sons, he considers himself "mother," with the silky pants suits and tasteful jewelry to accompany his job as the COO in a well-placed tech company. He's brainwashed our sons that his category of people are the most oppressed, aggressed-upon and beleaguered in the world, all the while lying about this very employment to avoid those pesky child support payments. (he got away with that, as they often do) Because of "pronouns" in all of the charitable institutions now, I no longer give to my alma maters or Planned Parenthood &etc. I give to friends who have a bit less than myself, such as a single mom of color, whose ex also doesn't pay child support. I also spend on the restoration of wildflowers in a couple of acres I own. The staff is mostly yours truly, but I have to get windfall trees logged out occasionally, a considerable expense. I consider this work my legacy.
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
One day we may discover the reasons behind the US closing schools. We had seen evidence from Japan, Korea and the EU that suggested that unlike seasonal flu, children were not Covid spreaders and the illness posed little risk to them. Even teachers were not particularly at risk although the elderly ones were; even so, there were ways to reduce their exposure. But close we did. In the process harming the very people we claim to want to help the most - the poorest among us. That fact alone ought to create a guilt trip in all. As Pelosi says "for the children". The least of us with parents forced to work leaving children in homes with limited internet access to fend for themselves.
I'm still angry and sad.
Democrats have always been grifters