CHRIS BRAY BLOG
Commie Mommies: ragin’, full on, now with valet parking
November 16, 2023

…The secret of the commie mommies, I’m pretty sure, is that they aren’t commies. They perform commie rage, as a status signal, like well-to-do white women who were afflicted with neurasthenia during the Gilded Age. (They…had to…summer at…very expensive resort hotels…to…recover.) But they don’t divorce the hedge funders, and they don’t pull their children out of the $50,000 middle schools, and they don’t give up the keys to the Mercedes. Their signaling of disgust and loathing for capitalism is how they separate themselves from the poors, much as the more you spend on college the more you learn to despise wealth and privilege. We’ve established the yearning for cultural suicide as a high-status socioeconomic signal, like you burn your house down to prove that it’s the nicest one in the neighborhood. READ MORE