Here’s what continues to worry me. Can you name a single “leader” who would have the stature, cred, and oratorical talent to lead any kind of serious resistance if Trump did win? I try, and try, and try, and come up with total bupkis.
Our so-called “leaders” get assimilated into the TV pundit corps the moment they ascend to any kind of prominence, and immediately become ineffectual and irrelevant. (Probably by design.) Try and find even one clear exception. Try.
I don’t care who you cite or what their background is. They rise to prominence because they did something, or was born into something, get a few months or years of fame, make a lot of money, and happily seem to fade away, but for random books, podcasts, grifts, or ventures here and there. You’d have to be in a coma for the past 20 years to not see a pattern here.
A couple of years ago, someone showed me an extremely detailed rant on Twitter about “the package” that somehow gets magically offered to activists who show up and get noticed. It vanished, and I’ve never found any reference to it again. Consider many of the BlackLivesMatter “founders.” Many of them made serious money, got lots of TV appearances, book deals, and other lucre for a couple of years, and promptly vanished from view (or relevance). It happens over and over and over again.
And this kind of thing may sound conspiratorial, because it probably is. It was Angelo Carusone who opened my eyes (14 years ago) to just how legally corrupt America has become when he explained how conservative law firms aligned with the federalist society show up on law school campuses every year to “buy up” all the young legal talent and ensure they will never make it into progressive government. Want to keep a kid from becoming socially important? Pay him $180k—to start.
@mckra1g I just don’t understand why more aren’t seeing the pattern. Every couple of years, some new author will show up and write about these kinds of systemic problems, and they too quickly get rich and promptly vanish. If not from view, than from relevance. Almost all of them effectively retire by 35.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair
Not only are we doomed to repeat history, I think we get some sort of masochistic kink out of repeating it on purpose. Sometimes I think we're all just bugs in a cosmic jar who take turns being a different person or manifestation of carbon for eternity. It's probably the closest I'll come to sharing an opinion with Elon Musk. It's like we're a Sims game.
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