inquiry

From a Washington Post article:

He bashed the billionaire class and its influence over American elections. “Democracy means one person one vote and not billionaires buying elections,” Sanders yelled in his Brooklyn growl.

“We say no to oligarchy,” he continued. “Yes to democracy.”

God, I'm so glad I no longer go into auto agreement bleating mode over hollow naivety like that.

Perhaps the essence of what seems like progressive cluelessness to me is incessantly attempting to find and blame and correct systemic unfairnesses, when in fact the greatest and most foundational unfairness of all is that some people are just plain stronger, smarter, better at tasking risks, and – at times – plain dumb luckier than others (a reality hardly unique to our species).

Somehow or another the progressive way of thinking has morphed toward not even being able to think that.

But how could any kind of sane – aka working – social plans/programmes be formulated ignoring something so fundamental and – when not hypnotically repeating/insisting otherwise – obvious?

The current state of society in the United States isn't because of some “oligarchy” making it so. Rather, it's the working out of hundreds of millions of egos doing what egos do – which includes oligarchies, faux democracy, crime, “outrage culture”, etc., etc. And some are smarter, stronger, where spotted unfair economic and/or “who you know” advantages, etc., etc.

And none of that can be fixed without starting all over with people that, well, aren't people....

I dare say Trump is the most accurate representation of what we truly are I've seen in the White House my entire life.

And along those lines, I suspect the root of progressive hatred of Trump is how inescapably plain he illustrates what we fundamentally are, and how what we fundamentally are can't possibly work regardless any “system” we'd be plopped into, because what we fundamentally are will perpetually steer the outcomes ship back to the loathsome self-ish (aka ego-ish) context in which ego belongs.

Obama and other presidents bombed the fuck out of others, and did Deity knows what other disgusting things.

But they did it with performance flair far exceeding what the Trump ego could pretend to muster.

Shit... I do believe that's it in a nutshell....