• PKMKII [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Because that’s politics and libs are revolted by icky pedestrian politics. They don’t want a base that has to be satisfied, they want a coalition of the reasonable who vote for blue no matter who not because they’ll get anything out of it, but because the qualified people told them that’s what they have to do to have the respect of the qualified people.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      11 months ago

      a coalition of the reasonable

      the qualified people

      They want an oligarchy, plain and simple.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        Functionally that’s what it ends up with, but I think their fantasy is a meritocracy/technocracy. That the people who went to the right schools with the right degrees, who got the right internships and then jobs at the right firms, with the democratic process as a coronation of that meritocracy rather than an expression of public will. A state run by an army of Buttigiegs.

        Of course, the reality is that system produces more Trumps than Buttigiegs. Which is why he freaks liberals out; metaphorically speaking, he’s the inbred freak the aristocracy keeps hidden in the attic in some Victorian novel to keep up the illusion of their good breeding, and the libs are the other aristocrats scandalized that he got out and made a mess of the gala.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          11 months ago

          I don't think it's incidental, I think liberals have a deep elitism that drives them. They actively dislike democracy.

          • nohaybanda [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Certainly. That’s why populism is a dirty word to them. Why should the patricians sully themselves with the vulgar demands of the governed?