Aside from laws, it’s now apparent that masks and other COVID restrictions are also for the “little people.” This message has again been sent by octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who again was caught maskless. This time she was at a very large, non-diverse Democrat fundraiser where all in attendance appeared unmasked — except for the “faceless brown serfs” serving all the liberal swells, to quote Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson.
It’s a clear “window into the society they’re trying to build,” he said, a two-tiered tyranny with a (pseudo)elite power class and those who obey.
Reporting on the matter last night, Carlson pointed out that there’s an interesting historical parallel to today’s coronavirus craziness. During the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19 — which claimed 675,000 Americans, more than two million adjusted for today’s population — certain public officials issued mask mandates and penalized the noncompliant. “The man or woman or child who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker,” Carlson quoted a typical Red Cross announcement of the time as having scolded.
Authorities were so dictatorial about the rules, in fact, that a San Francisco health agent shot a man who refused to mask up, also striking two bystanders nearby. Like today, it all seemed a bit overdone but, like today, citizens gave their leaders the benefit of the doubt.
That is, until a photographer snapped a certain picture at a San Francisco boxing match. It was of “several high-ranking city officials — including the mayor, a member of congress, and a senior health administrator — sitting at the event, all completely unmasked,” stated Carlson.
That image changed everything. Mask mandates melted away. “The public was willing to endure inconvenience, but not hypocrisy,” as Carlson put it.
Today there’s far more inconvenience and far more hypocrisy. This brings us to Pelosi’s affair. As Carlson related it:
Once again, officials in California have been caught on camera exposing their own contempt for their own public health measures. Video has emerged from a Democratic fundraiser on Sunday morning in Napa Valley, just north of San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi was there. She’s got an estate nearby. So were other Democratic officials, as well as the party’s biggest donors, who paid $30,000 a ticket to be there. The first thing you notice about the group, other than how strikingly non-diverse it is, is that none of them are wearing masks. They’re breathing all the fresh air they want, like it’s 2019. The only people there in masks are their servants — faceless brown serfs, scurrying back and forth to bring them things. Nothing worse than having the help breathe on you. But that’s not a problem for Nancy Pelosi.
… It’s repulsive but revealing. It’s pretty clear at this point that Nancy Pelosi — our chief Covid enforcer — doesn’t believe a word she says about the virus. She’s 81 years old, deep in the risk range for the virus. She’s standing at a crowded event in Napa, which according to the Biden Administration’s color-coded map, is one of the riskiest places in the country for coronavirus transmission. Yet she’s not social distancing, or wearing a face shield. She doesn’t even have a mask on. She knows she’s not in danger. There are no Republicans present, so there’s no reason to pretend otherwise .
The video above also includes clips of Pelosi self-righteously playing mask enforcer, calling failure to wear one a “breach of decorum” and saying, “I’m a big believer in wearing a mask and not sharing any air unnecessarily.”
“Has there ever been a clearer window into the society they’re trying to build?” Carlson then asked rhetorically. “Our formerly middle-class nation now has a serf class. They’re the ones wearing the masks, being forced to take drugs they don’t want, being told not to communicate with one another, except through digital channels the Democratic Party controls.”
For sure. Whether it’s Pelosi, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), or someone else, our pseudo-elites have made clear that China virus restrictions are for the hoi polloi. Yet their hypocrisy isn’t just motivated by convenience, by lacking the discipline to adhere to their own rules. Rather, there’s often a more malevolent factor at work. As to this, please read what I wrote last November:
Studies have shown that leaders, no matter the time or place, tend to be worse than the people they lead. A major reason for this is that politics attracts power-mongers (along with the narcissists and sociopaths).
Power lust is alien to most people. Oh, they can understand lusting after sex or food or money, as virtually all of us have related urges (just hopefully not to a disordered degree). Though it’s a rarer defect, however, people can lust after power in just the way a robber baron may crave money; a nymphomaniac, sex; and a glutton, food. But most people can’t relate to this problem — and generally don’t even consider its existence — because they’re not saddled with it; instinctively projecting one’s own mindset and priorities onto others is a common error.
… So how does this relate to COVID hypocrisy? Well, one way to enhance your sense of power is by flouting rules everyone else must follow.
It’s even more of a rush if you imposed those rules on them in the first place.
It can make you feel special, above it all, like an elite, master of all you survey. Rules are “for the little people,” as the supercilious suppose, so you can feel like a big person if you’re beyond rules, beyond limits, beyond constraints.
I’ll add that just as with racial or any other type of supremacists, it’s part of man’s (fallen) nature to enjoy feeling like part of a superior group. Oh, you may not be particularly impressive in any substantive way; you may be ridden with character flaws. “But at least I’m not like those people,” the thinking goes.
There’s little doubt the world’s Pelosis get off on feeling that they’re the elite. Their self-image is often based on being able to look down on us as if they’re mythical Greek gods. But since they’re thoroughly mediocre and not naturally above us, they must artificially lower us down with irrational, humiliating laws, regulations, and restrictions.
They are the exposed face of tyranny, and we are the faceless ones.
