from #HamiltonNolan https://inthesetimes.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-election-2024-dumb ht @ryanlcooper
Text: The question of how our nation became so disgusted by the myth of politics- as-public-service that it happily embraced the apocalyptic politics-as-Squid Game we now face is one that can actually do us some good. That question, you see, is not about the dumb man himself, or his retinue of cretins, or the wearisome parade of sociopathic looting that our government is about to endure. It is instead about all the nice, respected, smart people who came before him, and how their justifications for the sociopathic looting of the past grew so transparent that they disappeared. Run a system without humane values long enough and people will crave for nothing more than to laugh while it burns. The only thing left now is to rebuild it better when the smoke clears.