This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. The title: “What can you do about the Trumpites next door?” Heffernan wasn’t lamenting neighbors who had tagged her house with pro-Trump graffiti, or who had participated in the Jan. 6 riots, or who had even held an election watch party and turned the music up too loud. No, Heffernan was lamenting the travails of living next door to Trump supporters … who had cleared her driveway of snow.
Heffernan writes, “Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway … just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.” This simple act launched Heffernan into a journey of angst and rage. “How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?” she laments. “I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?”
In order to justify the answer she wants to give — as little thanks as possible, because, after all, these are Evil Trumpites — Heffernan proceeds to speculate as to her neighbors’ motives: Perhaps they only cleared her driveway because she and they were white. Or perhaps this whole event was a reminder that members of evil groups sometimes do good — she compares them to the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and the Nazis. If she treats her neighbors with too much decency, she reminds herself, that might make her like an upper-middle-class family from France who collaborated with the Nazis and lamented the Nazis’ defeat because of their commitment to being “polite.”
Heffernan seethes with the agony of cognitive dissonance. “My neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans,” she writes. “They kept him in business with their support. But the plowing.”
In the end, Heffernan’s solution is to be nice — but not that nice. She will offer a “wave and a thanks,” but she is “not ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet.” She’s unwilling to give her neighbors “absolution,” ignoring the fact that they have not asked for absolution, nor do they require absolution for the great sin of voting differently and clearing her driveway of snow . “Free driveway work, as nice as it is,” Heffernan states, “is just not the same currency as justice and truth.” The only way she’ll be able to truly treat her neighbors decently is if they recognize “the truth about the Trump administration” and work “for justice for all those whom the administration harmed.” Then, she’ll be decent to her neighbors.
Heffernan’s neighbors should immediately pile as much snow as humanly possible back onto her driveway, hose it off and let it freeze.
The nasty snootiness Heffernan evidences is all too common these days. Heffernan obviously judges her neighbors not on the basis of what she knows about them but on stereotypes she holds about all Trump voters. When faced with the reality that those who disagree with her can be nice and decent people, she simply dismisses the possibility altogether, justifying her own viciousness by referencing their supposedly radical political beliefs. Which, of course, makes her the villainess in this particular morality play.
But she’s too blind to see it. These days, tens of millions of Americans are. And so, the social fabric continues to shred, all in the name of depraved, unearned moral superiority.
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she of the Los Angeles Times???? how much snow did she get there?
She was at her “pandemic hideaway” in the mountains. Typical snowflake Marxist who hates America and really doesn’t want unity, only wants conformity to her Marxist views.
It all boils down to the mental health of Democrats.
The majority of the Democrats are consumed by the Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their unjustified hatred of Donald Trump, to the point they will abandon all logic and reason.
Symptoms for this condition can be very diverse, ranging from racist or hatefilled outbursts to a complete disconnection from reality.
With No known Cure,
but there’s a sure-fire treatment: IMPRISONMENT!
Hence their morphed Party name: Dementocrat.
I prefer DEMON-Rat, or Commucrat!
IMO this is why NO ONE should ever, do any favor, for any leftist.. PERIOD. IF you pass their car, and it’s on fire, KEEP MOVING along. If you see them fall down the stairs, Walk away.
If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if your enemy is thirsty, give him water, (if your enemy has snow in the drives way, plow it) it will be like heaping burning coals on his head. Some people actually believe in returning evil with good, it scares the recipient because they can’t understand the concept of random acts of kindness given without strings being attached or any reciprocation expected. The generations of ‘ME’ have been deprived of any education regarding teaching of religion or even in the concepts espoused by most of the religions of the world much to their moral detriment.
Next time, these “helpful” neighbors should pile lots of snow on her driveway, so she will have double the burden of clearing it. SHE is one big obnoxious babe, who really deserves nothing.
Get one of those powerful snowblowers, and BLOW IT all against her doors!
President Biden has expressed an interest in unity. It has to be a two-way effort. I have been shocked at people I thought were nice people posting on social media the most vile things about the president and his supporters. Well, I supported the president. It is hurtful that they would think I was some sort of evil monster because I support making America great again, job opportunities for all, fewer government regulations, strong borders, etc.. The difference between me and them is I don’t post political rants on Facebook and Twitter.
I think many Trump supporters are probably showing more grace than people realize. We have not been spewing hatred on social media because someone voted for a different presidential candidate in 2016 or 2020.
The left OFTEN talks about unity, or compromise, BUT WHAT THEY ALWAYS MEAN is “YOU give us what we want, we never give up anything!”.. Always has been that way, and imo they always will be..
Heffernan states, “is just not the same currency as justice and truth.” Yep, Heffernan, you are a communist, so you are the arbiter of “truth” aren’t you? You, Heffernan, support Joe criminal Biden and his criminal family, so you are certainly “Pravda” aren’t you? Heffernan, did you go to the communist school of Pravda journalism in Moscow?
Oh, dear! Does no one else see this poor, defenseless woman’s plight? Those awful neighbors did a NICE thing! No strings attached and likely not expecting any recognition for it. Oh, the pain! They single handedly removed her right to Bi*ch about the awfulness of everyone except me and thee…and I’m not too sure about thee.
What this shows me is, ONE SHOULD NEVER ever be helpful to a leftist. Period.
There will NEVER be unity if your average Democrat can’t even sincerely and emphatically thank their neighbor who was gracious enough to plow their driveway.
And for the record the idea that Trump ” showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans” is an outright lie.
The “justice” Democrats speak of is spelled “just us.”
As a reformed liberal (took a few years out of college to cleanse my blood of the virus) I can say you are 100% correct. The left has a tendency to consider themselves both our moral and intellectual superiors. If you are not in their club you are either an ignorant red neck slob or an evil Nazi or both. Trouble is, today instead of just hearing this constantly on CNN and NPR they now want to silence us. It’s political correctness on steroids but it is also an inevitable progression of the left’s war on free speech.
Did you hear how Disney, shanked over Gina Carlino, from the Mandolorian, for DARING to liken what the libtards are doing to us conservatives, to how the nazis handled jews!
I would respectfully disagree with the suggestion that her neighbors should pile the snow back onto her driveway & hose it off to freeze. That just degrades them to her level. Just smile & tell her, “You’re welcome.” Her juvenile rants show exactly what she is for all to see: A snotty, ungrateful, overgrown spoiled brat. Leave it like that; she’s not worth any further effort.
I disagree with you. ITS imo, because we’ve for decades, turned the other cheek, for FAR TOO bloody long, that the left’s gotten as BOLD AND in your face, as they have…
Really? The pandemic in this country is the illogical, unrealistic democrat mindset. If she was bleeding to death and the doctor was a Trump supporter would she refuse his help?
No but would argue all the way and so much that the medical help would perform euthanasia. lol
It didn’t occur to the woman to thank them and politely ask them to refrain from doing so in the future, as she is perfectly capable of handling it herself. No, she will continue to take from those she despises because that greed is the MO of her ilk.
With a few exceptions, Tulsi Gabbard comes to mind, Democrats are suffering from a mass delusion that causes them to believe they are both morally and intellectually superior to the political opposition. The Democrats’ denial of objective reality is a dangerous phenomenon that has caused them to believe their opponents, especially Trump supporters, are racists, homophobes, xenophobes, and Islamophobes who deserve to be censored, intimidated, and even physically assaulted.
As bad as this mass delusion is, it has taken a truly frightening turn as a result of the Capitol riot on January 6th. Now, the Democrats have descended into an unbelievably bizarre reality where political opponents are enemies of the state that are as dangerous as ISIS or Al Qaeda and need to be treated accordingly. With the Democrats now in control of both the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government, the Justice Department, intelligence agencies, and even the U.S. military will be focused on fighting the domestic terrorists and White supremacists the Democrats believe constitute an existential threat to our nation. It is uncertain just how far this campaign of political persecution against conservatives will go but if the Democrats’ past record is any indication, it will be the worst ever seen in our nation’s history.
It’s a sign Ron,
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.