Staff Reports
Ellen DeGeneres’ recent decision to pull up stakes in the English countryside and buy a $27 million mansion back in Montecito reads like a confession of celebrity cowardice — she fled the country when the political winds shifted and now quietly creeps back when convenience calls. The move was reported publicly this month, and insiders say the return is supposedly “temporary,” which, for living elites, usually means whenever it suits their schedule and their social circle.
Just last year Ellen announced she and Portia de Rossi had relocated to the Cotswolds and publicly framed the departure as a permanent escape from America after the 2024 election, saying they were staying abroad because of the new administration. That proclamation was never about principle or permanence — it was about optics, a virtue-signaling retreat by someone who traded in the very freedoms she now abandons and returns to on her own terms.
This kind of elite back-and-forth exposes a deeper rot: celebrities preach alarm over the direction of the country, then treat America like a boutique they can leave when headlines get uncomfortable and come back to when the weather or property market improves. Locals and reporters noted the house-hunting and property purchase alongside contradictions in public appearances, underscoring that the cultural class often faces no real consequences for walking away from the communities they lecture.
Meanwhile, real Americans — parents, teachers, and small-town citizens — are watching their schools get hollowed out and their children shuffled through a one-size-fits-none system while celebrities pontificate from abroad. That grievance is exactly what documentaries like The Death of Recess are exposing: the elimination of play, creativity, and local control in favor of bureaucratic sameness, and the film is now available on Angel for those who want to see how education is failing our kids and what reforms actually work.
If patriots care about the future, we should call out the hypocrisy plainly and double down on rebuilding schools that serve families rather than trending hashtags. Support local teachers, demand real accountability, and watch films that dig into solutions instead of swallowing celebrity sermonizing about how they fled the country when it needed them most.
