BOSTON — A new Suffolk/Globe poll has Massachusetts voters rejecting Mayor Michelle Wu's proposed congestion-pricing tax by more than 2 to 1 — and the response from Boston's online progressive left was to tell those voters they were wrong, brainwashed, "astroturfed," and that their opinions shouldn't even count because they don't live in the city.

The harshest take landed within hours. One commenter wrote that anyone driving into the city by choice should be financially punished as a matter of course:

Another framed Massachusetts suburbanites as too precious to share public transit with the rest of the city:

A third recast the 69 percent as morally culpable for their own existence:

And another rewrote the Globe's headline to suggest the 69 percent were the bad guys:

When the voters' actual rejection didn't move the room, the next move was to explain it away. One of the thread's most-upvoted comments, with 67 net upvotes, was four words:

Another commenter assigned the rejection to mass psychological manipulation:

A different commenter mocked one voter the Globe had quoted by name — a Massachusetts man who told the paper that driving was the cheapest way for him to get into the city for concerts — for, essentially, doing math.

The third move was to argue the 69 percent shouldn't have been polled in the first place. Several upvoted comments suggested Massachusetts residents who live outside the Boston city limits had no business weighing in on a Boston policy that would, in fact, primarily charge them money:

That last comment described the proposal's exact design — and the writer apparently saw it as a defense of the policy, not an indictment.

When the conversation turned to where the congestion-pricing revenue should actually go, one upvoted suggestion laid out the breakdown:

The voters, meanwhile, said no. Boston's online left's answer: pay no attention.