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Rob Finnerty did the job most of the mainstream press won’t: he called out the glaring disconnect between the climate catechism being preached on cable and the real estate purchases quietly being made by the very people doing the preaching. Americans deserve to know why politicians and elites who warn of “rising seas” continue to buy and enjoy waterfront luxury instead of demonstrating the sacrifices they demand of everyone else.
This isn’t theoretical — it’s been documented. Former President Barack Obama and his wife purchased a multimillion-dollar waterfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard, while longtime climate hawk John Kerry owns a sprawling beachfront property on the same island; even big-name philanthropists who bankroll climate alarmism have snapped up oceanfront retreats, like the Del Mar home reported for Bill Gates. These are the kind of facts ordinary Americans see and wonder about when policy rhetoric doesn’t match personal behavior.
The story the left tells the country is simple: sacrifice, taxes, and compliance from everyone who isn’t wealthy. Yet the people banging the drum for stricter energy policy and doom-laden forecasts are not rearranging their lifestyles — they’re buying beachfront property and jetting off to lavish getaways. Reporters who dare to point out this hypocrisy aren’t being “anti-science,” they’re doing basic reporting that exposes a two-tier culture of rules for the rulers and rules for the rest of us.
That double standard matters because policies born from virtue-signaling elites often land hardest on working Americans — higher energy costs, lost jobs, and less affordable housing — while the coastal set quietly insures their estates or simply writes the cost off as a rounding error. If climate policy is genuine, then those who preach it should lead by example and accept policies that affect them personally, not just lecture from mansions and yachts. Hardworking families deserve consistency, not sermons from those who profit from fear and influence.
Conservatives should demand two things: honest debate about practical, science-based solutions, and equal accountability for public figures who ask ordinary citizens to bear the burden of policy choices. We can support sensible resilience measures — seawalls, marsh restoration, sensible zoning — without kneeling to alarmism or letting elite hypocrisy set the terms of the conversation.
This is about fairness, truth, and protecting the American people from a politics of hypocrisy. If Democrats and their billionaire backers want to reshape America, they should start by practicing what they preach — or stop preaching at all. The rest of us will keep standing up for common-sense policies that protect families, livelihoods, and our constitutional freedoms.
