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So if she thinks that ages 18 to 24 are stupid, how then should a 12 to 18-year-old be sophisticated and mature enough to decide that they are the not “The sex that they were assigned at birth“?
"That's why they are our primary targeted demographic, to ensure that voting for us is their next bad decision."
This is more or less a feature of the system. Not a bug. They probably say shit just as bad about the older generations.
Our elections function fundamentally as a glorified popularity and marketing contest. IE manipulation. You can dress it up in all the rhetoric you want about the “Will of the People”. Ability to preform, and skills are secondary to your ability to talk yourself up. But fundamentally it’s a popularity and marketing contest and has been since Washington left office. When whether or not you get to sit your ass in a fancy chair is mostly dependent on your ability to manipulate people. Whether it’s with words or money. It’s probably not surprising the people competing for those chairs and dancing to the tunes of their masters have a dim view on the intelligence of the common folk.
They believe themselves superior. And that those shadowy interests who fund them view them as equals. When in reality they are only marginally more valuable to their masters than the commoners they deride as useless and stupid.
Anywho Sometimes the contests works according to the lofty idealistic standards originally set down. And we get someone who combines charisma with skill and genuine dedication to the American people. And their willingness to defy the shadowy interests. Most of the time we get empty headed suits who while charismatic, are more or less a rubber stamp for their party or the wealthy interests who put them in office. And “The people” get a couple bones on occasion. And the President is considered ‘Decent’ if there’s no major economic disaster or Major War during their terms.
And I’d imagine after Trump. We’ll go back to more sufficiently charismatic suits who excel at selling themselves and but ultimately accomplish nothing of any importance, aside from whatever goal or interest, their backer or party, decides on and they are subsequently regarded as comparative footnotes of little interest for a decade or two. The only main difference you can be reasonably sure that those interests will be run of the mill corruption. Versus actively evil and malicious. Before we might get someone else willing to break the mold.
The people who will likely take center stage in the history books after Trump. At least for a while. Are likely going to be Americas wealthy. And potentially Military personnel. Supposing space expansion proceeds as expected. They’ll have the finances to accomplish goals. And if Trump has his way. Fewer restrictions and regulations burdening their direction and vision.
A big popularity contest with the "lofty" goal of appealing to only 51% of the people who even bother to vote.
It may sound heretical at this point. But I’m increasingly failing to see what makes our current system significantly better than anything that preceded it. That doesn’t in someway involve an appeal to some notion of “Freedom” and “Liberty”.
And even “cleaning up” as it were. Doesn’t actually fix many of the problems with the system. All it really would do. Is allow you to pretty reliably attribute any issues to incompetence or run of the mill corruption. Versus anything that was secretly deliberately evil and malicious.