Gothouse [none/use name]
He regrets bigtime that long laugh at Donald Trump saying he’ll never be president. Stuff like that, elite disdain, was one of the things that poured so much gasoline on the chudpile that it energized Trump’s campaign into a flaming cross. Unbelievably, people who had twice voted for Obama voted for Trump, just so they could give the middle finger to people like John Oliver. Just shows how petty and unreliable they are. People, if you didn’t deserve the disdain it wouldn’t come down on you.
It’s more like, those people live completely separate lives from us and feel uncomfortable when they’re required to mingle with us.
Think about it, what do they have in common with us, culturally? Nothing. Many think our culture is disgusting and must be replaced. Others have zero experience outside their carefully curated lives, which started when their parents began their c.v. at age 3. To them, we seem unknowable and unthinkable, they have no more sympathy for us than they think we have for animals in the zoo. They believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary common folk, at the same time. We are The Other to them, and why the hell would they want to live among us or have any interaction with us whatsoever?
This is what it’s like when our lives collide. “I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I thought my coworker was kidding when he said he was spending the three-day weekend in Greece. When I finished laughing, four people recommended hotels.”
Political compass is good for some laughs, but that’s about it. I can’t understand why people use it as some sort of ironclad truth about politics.
There was a famous poll in which a shockingly large percentage of Germans said they would shelter a terrorist on the run from the police. I wouldn’t say they failed thoroughly, in fact they ran up success after success. They just didn’t diversify and grow, and the founders got into petty spats with each other over who was in charge.
There’s a reason they call them “donorcycles”.