Ancestors

Written by dm on 2025-02-05 at 20:21

The thing I don’t get is, what did these guys hate so much about the old system.

Like, lord knows it had its serious faults—and deep inequities—but these guys did really well, often as beneficiaries of those faults.

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Written by dm on 2025-02-05 at 20:21

Vance grew up in hardscrabble suburban Ohio, but he got into Yale Law and then landed a high-paying job as a venture capitalist. Not bad!

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Written by dm on 2025-02-05 at 20:21

Musk came to the US with only the black market emeralds in his pockets, but went to a different Ivy and made billions in America’s dynamic free markets. The federal government became the sponsor and primary customer of his rocket company, and when Tesla nearly went bankrupt, Obama bailed him out!

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Toot

Written by dm on 2025-02-05 at 20:21

And Trump, well, I know he resents being sniffed at by Manhattan high society, but he was born rich, never had to work an honest day in his life, repeatedly got bailed out by daddy and personal bankruptcy, all the while getting away with sexual assault and similar abuse.

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Descendants

Written by dm on 2025-02-05 at 20:21

RFK, jr, same thing.

Like, what are these guys actually upset about?

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Written by Royce Williams on 2025-02-05 at 20:28

@_dm If you frame it less as being upset, and more as being influenced by ... others, it can make more sense.

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Written by dm on 2025-02-05 at 21:07

@tychotithonus maybe, but there’s a deep sense of personal grievance and victimhood which appears inversely proportional to how bad these guys actually have it

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Written by Royce Williams on 2025-02-05 at 21:10

@_dm Oh, definitely - and amplifying and pandering to that seems like an efficient way to influence them.

But to your original question ... it's the only way to reconcile their self-perception with reality. They have to be the beleaguered hero for it to all make sense internally.

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