• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 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.