The problem with Raman is the problem with all carpet baggers. She has no cultural or family ties to LA. She looks at the city as an intellectual exercise. Pratt sees it as a once great city he remembers. It’s the same with @AOC. Roosevelt Avenue is full of prostitutes. She’s ok with it because she didn’t walk to Saint Sebastian’s with her Aunt Veronica. She didn’t have family parties at Donovan’s. She has no love for Queens because she’s not from there and so its decline means nothing. Her district could be anywhere. It’s an intellectual exercise not a community. You think @RepSuhas cares even a bit about his district? He doesn’t even know it. He’s not from there. There’s nothing about it he can say “remember when…”. It’s just a stepping stone for his ambitions. This is the problem with the huge number of carpet baggers and foreign nationals running for office. The American we want to make great again is an America we knew and experienced and cherished and loved. For them, all that matters is the now. Lack of patrimony and cultural / family ties make our politicians aloof, cold, indifferent, prone to corruption and fraud. We’re certainly not a constituency. Definitely not a community. We’re just an opportunity. A chick born and raised in India will never love LA the way a kid born and raised in LA will. Ever. Never. Ever. Ever. And that lack of connection is what makes our growing carpetbagger class extremely dangerous.
