Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Just thinking about all the Republicans and the 8 millionaire Dems who voted no on raising the hourly minimum wage to more than the cost of an average fast food meal.
It seems the majority of Congress is amoral. They may have some degree of principle left, but whatever is left is always drowned out by personal self-interest and acquisition of power so it’s rendered essential useless.
It seems it’s usually a personality type: the careerist who worships at the alter of “high achievement.” They’re not the best and often not the brightest either. They just have that hyper-focused ass personality type that lends well to academia plus a ruthlessness that this society rewards with better career opportunities.
Usually they did well in school and had financial and career success, and see getting into politics is really no different than a good internship or promotion. They define and validate themselves by how much success they can have. Going from a House Rep to a Senator etc. is just like climbing the corporate ladder.
They might think they are doing good, but that is often a product of narcissism and vanity about their success. They think they’re one of the special people in society who deserve to make decisions governing others because they’ve proven that they stand out of the pack and therefore know what’s best for everyone else.
The don’t see or don’t care about the flaw in the thinking of being adept at gaining personal power and abundance automatically makes them equipped to govern the lives of the masses.
Even if it did and they are the good bleeding heart elite who would like to help the people, it never happens because that altruistic desire will never supersede their religion of careerism. When voting on a bill or crafting legislation, “this will be good for people” will never trump “this will hurt my career.”
And it doesn’t end after Washington of course. They’re thinking about that lobbying money, that consultant money, that book deal, that netflix deal, whatever.
I’m generalizing somewhat, but I think that generally describes the majority of Congress...especially on the Dem side. The Repub side is a little different in that the achievement thing is usually some fukking idiot businessman or lawyer somewhere in shytty rural county who lucked their way into money and connections. Then you got your Cruz’s and Hawleys, high-achieving careerists who are whole DSM-5 certified psychopaths.
Legally getting money out of politics and having public financing of campaigns would help a lot with this cause then you could have more good genuine people with principles running instead of these reptilians.
It seems the majority of Congress is amoral. They may have some degree of principle left, but whatever is left is always drowned out by personal self-interest and acquisition of power so it’s rendered essential useless.
It seems it’s usually a personality type: the careerist who worships at the alter of “high achievement.” They’re not the best and often not the brightest either. They just have that hyper-focused ass personality type that lends well to academia plus a ruthlessness that this society rewards with better career opportunities.
Usually they did well in school and had financial and career success, and see getting into politics is really no different than a good internship or promotion. They define and validate themselves by how much success they can have. Going from a House Rep to a Senator etc. is just like climbing the corporate ladder.
They might think they are doing good, but that is often a product of narcissism and vanity about their success. They think they’re one of the special people in society who deserve to make decisions governing others because they’ve proven that they stand out of the pack and therefore know what’s best for everyone else.
The don’t see or don’t care about the flaw in the thinking of being adept at gaining personal power and abundance automatically makes them equipped to govern the lives of the masses.
Even if it did and they are the good bleeding heart elite who would like to help the people, it never happens because that altruistic desire will never supersede their religion of careerism. When voting on a bill or crafting legislation, “this will be good for people” will never trump “this will hurt my career.”
And it doesn’t end after Washington of course. They’re thinking about that lobbying money, that consultant money, that book deal, that netflix deal, whatever.
I’m generalizing somewhat, but I think that generally describes the majority of Congress...especially on the Dem side. The Repub side is a little different in that the achievement thing is usually some fukking idiot businessman or lawyer somewhere in shytty rural county who lucked their way into money and connections. Then you got your Cruz’s and Hawleys, high-achieving careerists who are whole DSM-5 certified psychopaths.
Legally getting money out of politics and having public financing of campaigns would help a lot with this cause then you could have more good genuine people with principles running instead of these reptilians.
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