Thread by @JMichaelWaller

1) Washington DC is a bubble. People who make their careers in federal agencies, including the military, live within that bubble. That's where nearly their colleagues, friends, social networks, and professional opportunities exist. Rewards & penalties exist within that bubble.

2) Lots of good people exist among the dregs in that bubble. With the busy-ness of every day, and the duties and lifestyles within that bubble, it occurs to very few that things are different outside. Even fewer understand and internalize those differences.

3) With professional advancement, personal affirmation, and financial security at stake, very few are comfortable living outside that bubble.

The longer they inhabit the bubble and the more senior they become, the more chronic the unawareness. This should not surprise us.

4) Facts and ideas that put that bubble at risk are therefore considered "extreme." They are alien to the bubble. They are threats.

So learned, sophisticated people inside the bubble must reject them. Especially if their duties are to guard and defend.

5) The phenomenon intensifies when those within the bubble make the common error of believing that they are the guardians of the Constitution by virtue of their special status in society. Constitutionalists outside the bubble are considered a threat to the bubble.

6) Many inheritors of institutions that had to "destroy the village in order to save it" take the same view of the Constitution.

Strangely, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad people. They are so immersed in doing their public jobs that they see no other way.

7) Many bubble inhabitants are in their second, third, or even fourth generation of making their livings off the taxpayer via the central government. They have become a dynastic ruling class. They are susceptible to identity politics, placing themselves at the top.

8) It's no wonder that the Americans who live in Flyover Country are viewed as deplorables.

Elements like BLM/Antifa also inhabit Flyover Country. Since they are fighting the deplorables (for now), they do not threaten the bubble. Their identity politics affirm the the bubble.

9) Consequently the bubble reaffirms and rewards the identity politics of the anti-deplorable BLM/Antifa/Rainbow extremists.

It incorporates their identity politics into itself, and in effect treats them as autonomous shock troops against the common threat: The deplorables.

10) Bottom line: When voices from deep within the bubble express surprise about reality outside, let's be careful not to rip on them before we can determine their sincerity. Some are willing to listen. Some even agree. I know many of them. Let's pierce the bubble from within.

11) Nine of the 20 wealthiest counties in America are in the suburbs of Washington DC. Some are richer than Silicon Valley.

Expanding, centralized government is the only big industry in the area.

The bubble will fight at all costs to defend itself. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…