I'm pretty sure that even living under a rock, you've heard about what's been going on with Teslas. The company is, overall, fine though the stock price is tumbling slightly. Dealerships and ownership, however, have been taking a hit. The source is that leftists are firebombing and shooting up dealerships and vandalizing people's cars, sometimes in the most disgusting way possible.
And that's just one of many ways things are ugly.
But what's telling from the left isn't that they're just shrugging off the violent nature of some of these attacks, nor the destruction of private property. Anyone who remembers the first Trump presidency should have known there'd be something along those lines.
No, what's telling is just how they're trying to gaslight us into disbelieving what's plain as day.
Former Republican congressman turned leftist lapdog Adam Kinzinger summed up the gaslighting perfectly in a video he posted on X.
He, and others on the left, keep making light of what's happening and saying conservatives are upset over the boycott and are just snowflakes because they can't handle a taste of their own medicine after the right boycotted Bud Light, Target, and others. This is a fairly common talking point from what I've seen.
That would be a valid point except for one important thing: No one cares about the supposed boycott.
Look, I didn't boycott Bud Light because I never drank it. You can't boycott something you never buy. Likewise, most of the people "boycotting" weren't likely to buy a Tesla. They might have wanted to considering the left's love of electric vehicles, but most of them couldn't afford it. Those who could may instead decide to buy something else, but then folks on the right are inclined to buy Teslas and since more of us have jobs, well, we can see how that will go.
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No, people are upset because this isn't a boycott. This is a brutal, violent attack on an American-owned business that builds cars here in the United States. It's domestic terrorism, plain and simple.
So that leads to the question of whether they're stupid or delusional.
It might be easy to just say they think we're stupid, but even that requires one of those two conditions to exist. The burning dealerships have been all over the news and social media. The vandalism of people's cars has been as well. It's almost impossible to ignore, even if you tried.
I'm tempted to attribute it to outright evil on their part, which seems to increase in likelihood every second that passes, but even evil people should recognize how ineffective this nonsense would be. The Nazis may have been big on repeating a lie enough that people accept it as the truth, but that's a whole lot harder to do when you don't control the flow of information proving it to be a lie.
So again, are they delusional or just stupid?
Stupidity would mean they either ignored the evidence or seem to think they can gaslight us into believing there's no such evidence at all, which would be idiotic to such a degree that I'd have questions about how they manage enough brainpower to breathe.
Delusional, on the other hand, would fit with so much else we see from the left. Why wouldn't they demand girls change clothes in front of a boy in a school locker room when they can't seem to think about it rationally? Why wouldn't they see DOGE and Elon Musk attacking government waste, fraud, and abuse as anything but an attack on their institutions? Why else would they be unable to understand why straight, white men aren't particularly fond of voting for the party that routinely demonizes them and seeks to push them out of society as a whole?
But the issue with delusion as an answer is that I like it too much; it fits too neatly into my own biases. That automatically makes me skeptical of it.
Either way, though, the effect is the same. They're screaming at the wind, telling us we're upset over nothing, all while a "fiery but mostly peaceful boycott" is underway throughout the nation. I don't even particularly care right now whether it's organic or astroturf, only that it's happening and they're pretending it isn't.
I'm sorry, but to paraphrase a certain Dean Wormer, "Fat, dumb, and delusional is no way to go through life."
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