I think the ultimate core of American system dysfunction is that American elites, at least the majority, seems to have 100% started believing their own bullshit and those who are smart enough to know better are either too cowardly or opportunistic to say otherwise preferring to
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either stay silent or abuse the system for their own parochial benefit. The Democrats say this about Trump's establishment Republican supporters which is true, but it also true for the political class as a whole. The overwhelming majority of the senior fellows, analysts, journos,
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and corporate sinecures that form the integrated whole of the government Nomenklatura aren't so much stupid as they are ideologues committed to their ideology that is accelerating in its divergence from reality.
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No, they're also stupid. You have to select against intelligence when you select for ideological conformity to an insane ideology They don't trust someone who's intelligent enough to explain the contradictions - the Scott Siskind types - they only trust those who don't see them
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