What’s going on is that you are in the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by an old narcissist who demands love and fealty from everyone.
They are not watching the road.
Anytime they get the slightest hint that you do not love them unconditionally, the threaten to swerve the car into a bridge embankment and kill you both.
You uncomfortably make conversation on the ride.
It turns out that if you convincingly explain how popular you are for a certain point of view, and insist that “many people are saying…”, the old man will eventually agree with you even if at first he loudly barked his opposition to it.
Eventually you begin to realize that this man has no real principles or beliefs. He is just a ball of oppositional defiance disorder, terribly lonely, unhappy, pathologically and incessantly seeking your approval. And malleable. So so very malleable.
Way to pick a leader, America!
MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The ruling class wear ideology like a suit. It’s political theatre. Power only ever serves itself, right/left have no meaning at the top.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_of_elites
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Bingo. See 1984 for details.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Left and right are just a narrative to keep the lower classes busy against each other…
Everyone dislikes some stuff that are considered right ideology
Everyone likes some stuff that are considered right ideology
Everyone likes some stuff that are considered left ideology
Everyone dislikes some stuff that are considered right ideology
We need diversity