Jonah, watching that GreenTech video caused an acid flashblack to my time spent in the glorious German Democratic Republic, which — 30 years and more before GreenTech — offered cars with the same elegant lines and classic stylings as Terry McAuliffe’s former venture. Please pack your bags and come along with me on this stroll down the potholed Memory Autobahn. About the only thing missing is the big flourish from Liszt’s Les Preludes to put the ad into true socialist cultural context:
“Four trumps with the Trabant 601! Comfortable for four grownups! Plenty of room for your luggage. Nimble, fast, durable and robust.! Your reliable companion, the new Trabant 601.”
One of the ways the Left consistently outmaneuvers the Right is through their use of symbolism and imagery, which of course they’ve learned from the masters over the course of the 20th century. But their fatal weakness is their inability to disguise their true thoughts and feelings — their inherent, apparently congenital misery, self-loathing, can’t-do attitude and, most of all, their burning desire to force the rest of us to join their insanity always come shining through.
Vorwaerts in die Zukunft! Or maybe Back to the Future. In either case, enjoy the ride, if you can squeeze in.
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