Over the past 6 months I reconnected with an old friend and his family. Our daughters have been friends since kindergarten. We hadn’t seen each other much since Covid descended on us because his wife, who I am also friends with, is immune compromised and they felt unsafe around me because my I am a frontline healthcare worker and my hu…
Over the past 6 months I reconnected with an old friend and his family. Our daughters have been friends since kindergarten. We hadn’t seen each other much since Covid descended on us because his wife, who I am also friends with, is immune compromised and they felt unsafe around me because my I am a frontline healthcare worker and my husband is a first responder. Lately we have been spending time together again. This friend is a long time DNC campaign strategist and has gradually worked his way up in the DNC organization. He is in weekly contact with White House level staff. I believe my husband and I are some of the few regular middle/working class people they ever hang out with. They live a very luxurious life funded largely by inherited family wealth. They both drive Tesla’s, work from their laptops in a giant solar panel topped house, own multiple vacation homes, etc. They intermittently giggle about how nice it is that the high gas prices don’t really matter to them. Our lifestyles are extremely different. My husband and I work tons of overtime in incredibly stressful jobs to be able to meet our financial obligations, rarely ever go on vacation, etc. We only have one child because we can’t afford to properly care for more children. Two months ago they led me into a conversation in hopes, I guess, of finding out what a regular middle class mom thinks of how things are going since the Biden team rolled into the White House. I said “do you really want to know what I think ?” They said yes. I chose to not hold back. I told them, from every direction, how the Democratic Party’s latest policies have affected my family and other families like mine. There are no words to describe how completely out of touch these DNC elitist types are. They dismissed my concerns and blew off everything I said at lightening speed. It was just stunning. Then came all kinds of super condescending remarks about how I “just don’t understand the big picture, blah blah blah “. I said “well then, it’s going to be very interesting to see how this all shakes out at the midterms”. The DNC can ignore hard working middle income families like mine at their own peril.
Over the past 6 months I reconnected with an old friend and his family. Our daughters have been friends since kindergarten. We hadn’t seen each other much since Covid descended on us because his wife, who I am also friends with, is immune compromised and they felt unsafe around me because my I am a frontline healthcare worker and my husband is a first responder. Lately we have been spending time together again. This friend is a long time DNC campaign strategist and has gradually worked his way up in the DNC organization. He is in weekly contact with White House level staff. I believe my husband and I are some of the few regular middle/working class people they ever hang out with. They live a very luxurious life funded largely by inherited family wealth. They both drive Tesla’s, work from their laptops in a giant solar panel topped house, own multiple vacation homes, etc. They intermittently giggle about how nice it is that the high gas prices don’t really matter to them. Our lifestyles are extremely different. My husband and I work tons of overtime in incredibly stressful jobs to be able to meet our financial obligations, rarely ever go on vacation, etc. We only have one child because we can’t afford to properly care for more children. Two months ago they led me into a conversation in hopes, I guess, of finding out what a regular middle class mom thinks of how things are going since the Biden team rolled into the White House. I said “do you really want to know what I think ?” They said yes. I chose to not hold back. I told them, from every direction, how the Democratic Party’s latest policies have affected my family and other families like mine. There are no words to describe how completely out of touch these DNC elitist types are. They dismissed my concerns and blew off everything I said at lightening speed. It was just stunning. Then came all kinds of super condescending remarks about how I “just don’t understand the big picture, blah blah blah “. I said “well then, it’s going to be very interesting to see how this all shakes out at the midterms”. The DNC can ignore hard working middle income families like mine at their own peril.
They will think that until the big picture involves the people taking their government back. Ask the eastern European elites about that one...