Serious qestion: I feel like I'm being gaslit. Where does the perception of "Democratic elitism" come from?

[Sympthsical]

39. I read everywhere

Left, Right, and Center.

But I also keep a diverse social circle in my life. I don't mean simple identity - although the vast majority of people in my life are non-white and lots of LGBT - but ideologically and intellectually diverse. They don't all think the same. Some Democrats, some Republicans, some super Leftists, some libertarians, some religious, some atheist, etc. I grew up in a large Irish Catholic blue collar family, but I'm an entirely over-educated affluent suburbanite adult. It's great, because I can pull from lots of different viewpoints and synthesize them to shape my view of the world.

I'm a Democrat because I like our policies. I think they're far and away better than anything Republicans are offering. However, I do not necessarily share the civic or cultural religion around the political identity.

You gotta talk to everyone. And, more importantly, to be effective, you gotta get along with most people. Emphasis on most - not all. Some people you just can't, and that's fine. But we just seem geared to constantly look for heretics to kick out of the treehouse for being insufficiently devout. How's that going?

Asking a bubble why people outside the bubble don't like them isn't where I'd start sourcing out honest answers. If this election is teaching us anything in its aftermath, it's that self-reflection is not easily countenanced in the bubble. Everyone who's not me is just a bad person. The end.

I. don't. get. it.

How can anyone not see the behavior patterns that repeat again and again and again? It's textbook religious thinking, and the self-awareness just isn't there.

And to be honest, I'm tired, boss. I've been repeating this stuff for years, watching screw up after screw up. I'm close just throwing my hands in the air. "No, you're perfect. Keep doing what you're doing." And just walking away. I'll be totally fine.

A lot of people won't be, tho. Which I guess is why I just want to shake people in the bubble, clap in their face, and shout "Wake. The Fuck. Up." But that's the problem with a bubble. It's a space where people of like mind can assure and reinforce in one another that sleeping is best. And when you do try to wake people, they're awfully cranky about the whole affair . . .