The former Los Angeles mayoral candidate says each side is better at something, and he wants them to share the work.
Spencer Pratt lost the Los Angeles mayor’s race and then did something more interesting than most candidates who lose: he diagnosed the culture war in one tweet and invited both sides to stop pretending the other is useless.
The reality-TV veteran, who fell short of the November runoff in the June 2 primary, laid out the idea in a long post on X on Friday. “If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality,” he wrote.
He then turned the same test on the left. A left-winger who cannot admit that conservatives are “way better at running cities and businesses and police departments” is also not living in reality, Pratt wrote.
Pratt illustrated the point with a walk through the Pacific Northwest. A visitor steps into a beautiful coffee shop and thinks conservatives should take notes, he wrote. Then the visitor steps outside, trips over a person shooting fentanyl on the sidewalk, and thinks liberals should take notes from conservatives.
His proposed arrangement: “Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional.”
Pratt drew a line between “classical liberals” and communists, writing that communists make “disgusting anti-beauty art” while classical liberals do not. He warned that continued fighting between the two camps leaves an opening for communists. “We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance,” he wrote.
A shorter post an hour earlier put the idea in three sentences: “Conservatives make society functional. Liberals make society beautiful. We really do need each other.” By Saturday morning it had about 1.4 million views, 8,900 likes and 794 reposts.
Pratt kept the thread going in replies. To one account he wrote that “California has been broke, bankrupt, and full of homeless for decades, yet the politicians here can afford to raise prices and taxes and they never get punished at the ballot box.” To another he wrote: “Conservatives running city hall, liberals running the coffee shops and art galleries. This is how God wills it.”
The long post cites no figures and names no city. Pratt’s own run for office ended in June, when Nithya Raman, a Los Angeles city councilmember, passed him for the second spot on the runoff ballot against Mayor Karen Bass.
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