Are Harvard students stupid or hypocrites?

Stoopid but proud

A poll of incoming Harvard freshmen showed 90.1% Biden voters, 7% for Trump. Are these privileged children really on board with the Progressive agenda? Racial quotas in hiring? Suppression of free speech? Equal grades for all, regardless of effort? Confiscatory income taxes? No iPhones? They either haven’t thought through the consequences of the coming Green Socialist Pogrom or, possibly, they have, and eagerly await it or, most likely, they’re all for it because they can’t believe they’ll be the ones discriminated against and punished. They don’t realize that they’re being sucked into a class war, one that divides by category, rather than merit. Their easy assumption that they’ll follow in their predecessors’ paths and land important jobs in Washington and corporate board rooms and academic institutions is misplaced: they’ll be classified by their level of approved victimhood; white males, even white females need not apply, and a black male will be less favored than a transgendered “female” black dwarf. And you Asian-Americans? Fuggedaboutit.

None of which particularly bothers me or will cause me to lose sleep, because I can’t think of a group of people more deserving of what they are about to receive. But it might, or should, bother them.

This author linked to thinks this blindness is due to a combination of hubris and ignorance, and perhaps it is:

When Democrats hate what they vote for

[After a Mask-Nazi at work exploded when she failed her health check-in and was sent home]

I was amazed at how my colleague responded to all of this. Given her fear of the virus and her outspoken way of handling mask breaches, it could have been safely assumed she would abide by the protocols. After all, it’s the science! Moreover, who wouldn’t like a paid day off? But no, this person felt wronged. She felt aggrieved. Her list of plaintive utterances was lengthy. “It’s only a headache... It’s allergies… I should have lied on the screener... What work can I do at home... I just want this all to end.” On that we can at least agree.

A second colleague of mine was awarded a personal grant of sorts for her work with an outside program. The award took the form of a sizable check. This person, who is neither necessarily poor nor well off, is accustomed to living off her paychecks and appears never to have noticed what all goes out of them. She just makes do with what ends up in her account. Upon receiving notification that her award had been deposited, she verified with her bank account and was instantly dismayed. Whereas the award was valued at $5,000, she had only received about $3,000.

Pop quiz: Where did her money go?

This employee was dumbfounded. It needs to be addressed she is a Bernie supporter, and a diehard one at that. This point makes the example not only salient but particularly satisfying. Her own useless protestations indiscriminately penetrated the air, seeking out anyone willing to listen: “Look how much they took out… that was my money... I worked hard for that grant.” She was genuinely confused and upset. She also has no intentions of changing her voting habits. That she supports Comrade Sanders is simply a level of delusion playing out across this country with frightening regularity.

These two incidents illustrate a perfect encapsulation of the Democrat mind: Other people should have to ____ but not me. Fill in the blank: Pay more taxes. Lose livelihoods because of media panic porn and government overreach. Be dishonest when expecting others to be honest. Do as I say and not as I do. Most importantly, it exemplifies how fools who vote Democrat in 2020 have no conceptual understanding of what voting Democrat actually means.