Tucson’s Woke Elite: ‘Triggered’ by Prosperity & Affluence?

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Tucson, Arizona [Photo courtesy City of Tucson]

As a Metro Tucson resident who’s very aware of the techno-economic boom happening in the rest of Arizona, especially just up the road from us in Pinal & Maricopa Counties….I was mystified.

How is it the state’s 2nd largest metro has openly resisted the growing [offsite] prosperity & affluence of the last 3-4 decades in Arizona?  A movement now culminating in a massive, self-sustaining wave, entirely in synch with global political, technological, and demographic forces?

It befuddled me until a nearby friend …who like I, had the same question.  Methinks he has ‘divined’ the answer.

My friend lives in Tucson’s fast degrading “heights”, aka The Catalina Foothills; Pima County’s upscale, UNincorporated census designated place (CDP), overlooking all “the little people” below.  And home to legions of local liberal bigshots, sinecured UA apparatchiks, seasonal trophy-home owners, and scores of guilt-ridden, self-loathing wealthy refugees from the US Northeast.

This zip code routinely funds a menagerie of liberal Tucson causes and wacky, ineffective Dimshevik politicos, and has done so for many decades.  Maybe it’s impressive to them, but for the life of me—I cannot see where it’s made one iota of difference in the Tucson Metro.  But then again, I try not to drink my own bathwater, and I adhere to Dr. Friedman’s maxim, “The Left judges itself by its good intentions, not by the actual results.” (paraphrasing)

Recently, this real clue has emerged to Tucson’s urbanized mental pathology.  A pathology that has screwed-the-pooch on so much potential progress for the Metro.  Here it is: Tucson’s elite sophisticates are really people ‘triggered’ by others’ affluence, and common displays of prosperity & success. 

I’m using the term ‘sophisticates’ lightly; but they’re terribly insecure about their own success.  And who can blame them?  They’re at the top of the food chain in Arizona’s biggest 3-G, ‘gubbmint town’.

But that’s right, they get almost violently apoplectic if they’re forced to be in—say, a Scottsdale, Oro Valley, or Tempe for more than 24 hours.  Ditto being in a residential, or Heaven-forbid, any large, upscale commercial developments or urban streetscapes with maintained landscaping, high-end automobiles, and well-dressed, groomed & fit people.

Previously, I wrote on this phenomenon.  Elite Tucson also has a hybridized, urban version of the famous ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ psychosis.  Where people come to love their squalor, inasmuch as it reinforces their (Bozo) liberal insecurities.

They want to “make nice”, but in rejecting real performance metrics, their actual results suck.  Ergo, Tucson as the UA kids say, stays the “Dirty T’ and hence, the enormous yearly waste of University of Arizona graduates (who get-the-Hell-out-of-Dodge).

I am now coming to believe the incredible waste of AZ taxpayer funds is the direct result of this deeper social & economic pathology; a ‘spillover’ from Tucson’s spoiled Woke elite.  All Arizona pays the price (and they know it).  So shame on them and their distorted world-views.

Now get to work with your brains and money, and do it differently.  “What gets measured gets improved”, and real jobs & real outside investment for Tucson’s common poor, uniquely brainy, & college-educated-deserving should be numero uno.

Sellers is a Southpark Republican living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization, and can be found at “Metro Tucson E-P-T News” on Facebook

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Sellers is a South Park Republican who lives in incorporated Oro Valley. His background is federal tech-transfer commercialization. Contact him at readbill19@usa.net Sellers is also a grad of Clemson's Architecture School and the University of NC School of Business. He was a founding member of the Albuquerque Friday Morning Breakfast Group which elected numerous conservatives. He has lived in the SouthWest & PacNorthWest more than 40 yrs.