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Rob Finnerty did his job on Newsmax by calling out a brazen bit of political theater: Democrats loudly preach about rising seas and an imminent climate apocalypse while quietly snapping up oceanfront real estate for themselves. The contrast is not subtle — it’s a glaring reminder that the rules one set for Main Street rarely apply to the coastal mansions of the political class.
The latest example is unmistakable: reports show former vice president Kamala Harris recently purchased a multimillion-dollar home in Malibu’s Point Dume, a wealthy oceanside enclave that has been publicly flagged as vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding. This wasn’t a modest coastal cottage; it was an expensive, high-profile purchase that sits where climate models and alarmist warnings say the water will come creeping in.
Harris has spent years as one of the loudest voices on the left warning Americans about the “existential threat” of climate change, pushing federal programs and restrictive policies while she and other elites live as if the threat doesn’t apply to them. That hypocrisy isn’t just tone-deaf, it’s corrosive: when political leaders demand sacrifice from ordinary citizens but exempt themselves, trust in public institutions evaporates.
This is not an isolated occurrence; presidents and prominent Democrats have long owned waterfront properties while the same crowd champions ever more dire climate projections for everyone else. Even President Biden’s vacation home has been identified by independent risk assessments as facing serious flood danger, yet the elites who write the rules still enjoy beachfront lifestyles. Americans are right to ask whether the climate campaign from the left is a genuine public service or an elitist script.
Meanwhile taxpayers are left footing bills for expensive mitigation projects and bailouts while the political class moves freely between policy and profit. Governments change climate models and messaging depending on political winds, but the one constant has been the left’s appetite for wealth and power without personal consequence. If the climate fight were truly about protecting communities, policy would center on practical resilience and honest cost-benefit analysis — not virtue signaling from waterfront estates.
Americans deserve leaders who live by the same standards they preach, not elites who lecture and then retreat to oceanfront retreats that contradict their rhetoric. Conservatives should push for transparency, consistent standards, and a focus on real solutions that respect taxpayers and protect vulnerable communities without turning climate policy into a morality play for the powerful. It’s time to stop the hypocrisy, hold politicians accountable, and put the people — not the palace — first.
