Parenting & Family Quote by Tammy Bruce

“Abyss” is doing the heavy lifting here: it turns a political disagreement into a moral emergency, a cliff edge where hesitation equals doom. Tammy Bruce frames “the Left Elite” not as opponents with bad ideas but as actors in a con. The key verb is “pretend,” a preemptive strike on sincerity that makes rebuttal feel naïve. If they’re faking concern, then any policy claim, any appeal to empathy, becomes camouflage. That move is rhetorically efficient because it collapses a complicated landscape of institutions, ideologies, and incentives into a single villain with a single motive: manipulation.

The phrase “what’s best for everyone else” is a pointed jab at progressive moral language, especially the technocratic and cultural-managerial tone associated with educated urban liberals. Calling it “the most effective way” hints at strategy, messaging discipline, and psychological warfare rather than politics. The sentence doesn’t argue about outcomes; it argues about intent, repositioning the fight from “Which policies work?” to “Who’s lying to you?”

“You and your children” personalizes the threat and recruits parental protectiveness as a political accelerant. It’s also a familiar culture-war cue: schools, media, and social norms as battlefields where innocence is at risk. The subtext is trust transfer. If elites are manipulators, then the only safe guides are alternative authorities, counter-elites, and the speaker’s own camp.

Contextually, the line fits post-2010 right-wing media rhetoric that treats “elite” power as cultural as much as economic, and casts progressive appeals to inclusion as coercion. It’s less a diagnosis than a sorting mechanism: accept the premise and you’re already on one side of the trench.