Dustin Hurst

If you’ve spent the last several days watching prominent conservatives accuse young men of tongue-kissing communism because they complained that life has become unaffordable, let us assure you that you’ve not stumbled into a Babylon Bee headline. Hold up. Maybe you have, because they’re actually on that side these days. Regardless, reality really has become this stupid. Apparently, somewhere along the way, wanting to own a modest three-bedroom home before Medicare kicks in became Marxism, and wondering why groceries now require a small business loan has become “class warfare.” Suggesting that a young husband shouldn’t need three jobs and sell a kidney on eBay just to keep his family afloat became evidence that he secretly dreams of nationalizing Chipotle. An alarming (but predictable) number of conservative commentators immediately preached the same tired sermon. “Stop whining. Eat ramen. Learn to cook. Work harder. You’re doing life wrong. The market has spoken. Only communists complain about prices.” Dan Crenshaw, the NeoCon warmonger who invented the term “Woke Right,” before James Lindsay stole it and acted like it was his, was the guy who said to “Eat Ramen.” This is the guy who voted to give $61 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel, and voted to raise the government debt ceiling in the “Fiscal Responsibility Act.” That’s right - when the government went into debt paying for trans-kitty fashion shows in Morocco and subsidizing the National Institute for Immersive Mime Performance, Crenshaw raised the debt ceiling and called it “fiscal responsibility.” That one-eyed tax pirate is telling you to eat goyslop and be grateful. Homes really do cost dramatically more relative to income than they once did. Groceries really are eating a bigger share of your paycheck. Insurance really is outrageous. Starting a family really is more financially intimidating than it was a generation ago. None of that is communist propaganda. It’s called “noticing things.”