At the start of this current regime's election, despite having lost the majority of votes (and that besides the fact of voter suppression), there were a bunch of centrist neo-liberals who claimed that they needed to be listened to more than ever.   

Then we have the cult of personality around billionaires. Just look at any thread where someone like Musk comments on digging tunnels for, wait for it, cars. Not even close to highly original or even workable. And yet there we have a million minions defending him with the usual cliches of "first they laugh at you" or some other spurious claim to Musk's genius. [1]

But even the pundit class or intellectual class (or the loudest of those who would wear that label) come up with this pseudo-scientific bullshit that tells us our gods deserve to be gods because now we can show they think differently! I really hope they were paid well for such propaganda.

Meritocracy to save the day!

Of course of fucking course. 

I know I wrote about how we are all apes and should remain vigilant. But man are we in for a ride. If these demi-gods should deem it, they will pay one half of the poor to fight the other.  

Because of these unthinking minions we can be certain that the system will remain the same and we won't be able to break up monopolies as needed.

This while these idiots seem hell-bent on running from this planet and living forever while watching the world go to shit. And, mind you, claiming that it's not their fault (or the fault of some nebulous ignorant mass, not other powers or the system that allows them so much power). 

And I especially like the fact that people seem to think that all deserve their spots on top (despite the current POTUS and his wrecking of the nation[2]). Sure money matters, but as we move to try and find real solutions to our world's problems, it would seem that the assumption that those with money deserve it seems to ignore how we got into this mess.

Look at health care. We can spend billions on treatments, but if we don't work on prevention or inequality we are wasting our time. 

But such thinking doesn't get you a top spot at TED. 

*end rant*

[1] It would seem, to me, that at least much of this simply shows how good billionaires are at selling grift-like things to just about anyone. Long live the grift, I suppose.

[2] funny to follow this specific thread of thought: people seem to either say he's a billionaire and deserves our love and adulation and faithfulness and others who claim he isn't a billionaire (and only claims it), most against the claim are simply trying to disarm the claim that he's that rich, not that being that rich shouldn't mean you can run the country).

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