It's not often that one finds a clip from The View that makes you smile.
Wince, yes. Smile, no.
I try to watch clips from The View because they provide insight into how one of the most powerful constituencies of Democrats thinks. While conservatives scoff at the importance of the program, the fact is that it has a powerful impact on its audience of AWFLs. The View is the most-watched daytime talk show, and its audience of women can move political mountains, not by weight of numbers, but rather by helping set the Overton Window.
Know your enemy. It may not be fun, but it's useful.
Still, every once in a while, watching a clip from The View is more than useful--it gives actual pleasure. As when Whoopi Goldberg waxed poetic about how great a Surgeon General Jill Biden would make.
Whoopi Goldberg suggests Jill Biden become Surgeon General of the United States because she's an "amazing doctor." The mindless audience of The View clap like trained seals at the idea. pic.twitter.com/WW7QL8fqoW
— Xeriland (@Xeriland) July 25, 2022
Comedy gold. Whoopi gets taken seriously by millions of women, and she literally knows nothing of which she speaks. Dumb as a post, wise as a book with no writing.
Bernie Sanders' visit to The View gifts us with another fine example in the genre of know-nothingism. A man who claims to care deeply about "The People" can't seem to grasp that his actions have impacts on other people. He fights for an abstraction--the masses--while ignoring actual individuals harmed by his actions.
"If Congress said, 'we're not going to take our paychecks until we figure this out,' that would be a step in the right direction."
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) October 21, 2025
"Not everybody can afford to do that."
"Neither can the people who aren't getting paid enough."
"That's a fair point."pic.twitter.com/18G8fiWZ9d
As Sanders and his colleagues have a temper tantrum about losing the 2024 elections, they are actively harming one of their most loyal constituencies--government workers. Their government shutdown is also delaying EBT card payments, the recipients of which are also reliable Democrats.
Yet when an eminently reasonable suggestion is made that Senators and Congressmen forego salaries until a deal is made, he rebels.
"Some of us can't afford that!" Which is another way of saying that Democrats shouldn't have to face the same challenges as their constituents. It would be difficult for them to extend the shutdown indefinitely if they had to face the same challenges as the people they claim to be helping.
It obviously never occurred to him that his actions and those of his colleagues were actually harming people. Sure, federal workers and EBT recipients are great pawns in their game, but people as important as politicians? What a silly idea.
It's the same sort of thinking that allows Bernie Sanders to fly private jets around the country to promote the eradication of wealthy people and the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
It's not so much that they are hypocrites--at a certain level, one has to be aware of the contradiction between their actions and their professed beliefs for that to be the case. They simply think of themselves as too important for any rules to apply to them. It is almost shocking that anybody would think such things.
It's the same with insider trading. Politicians who complain about a "rigged" economy and the horrors of wealth inequality happily enriching themselves with insider trading, likely manipulating the laws to move stock prices as they buy and sell off the knowledge.
You can call it hypocrisy, and perhaps it is, but it goes much deeper than that. It is a total indifference to the suffering they cause others. You see it in homeless policies, the intentional destruction of our health care system with Obamacare, and in so many other ways big and small.
They make the rules, and rules are for little people.
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