Maybe this is because I grew up very privileged and so people were less “terrible” to me but I spend a lot of time thinking about how my priors effect my thinking and this is a big one.
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I don’t think it’s just you though. I was always more middle class, many times living paycheck to paycheck. I’m horrified to learn how many people have this much hate inside them! 😩😢
Science tells us - other than society - that we all generate our own model of the world (though we are conditioned today for reasons to believe we all run somehow the same model - your most basic prior) and the true work is to somewhat align the model with those of others to be able to cooperate.
I wasn’t raised privileged, but I was raised with morals and values. This crew of terrible people all in one place is unbelievable to me. How do people get like this?
It’s not just your self-described privilege. We keep analyzing from a policy and electoral cause and effect lenses. Does not apply. They’re sociopaths.
Russ Vought didn’t just say he wanted to trim government. He said he wanted to inflict pain on federal employees. It’s sadly not surprising.
PS - this is why so many Democrats are missing the mark with their messaging that starts with the “I’m all for cutting waste but….” This “pushback” perpetuates the myth that this has anything to do with “efficiency.” Just say it. These people want to hurt you because they like it.
My mom, now deceased, spent my entire life either beating me, or humiliating me. We stopped talking in 2015, she died in 2024. She was the epitome of a Trumper. She was a poor, female version of him. I am, all jokes aside, the Trump whisperer. However depraved they are, they will get worse.
I think we all underestimated how dumb and terrible this was going to be. We failed to imagine the perfect storm-an amoral narcissist, a Christian Nationalist movement, and a broligarch-coming together carrying a chainsaw and riding a wrecking ball.
It’s actually very easy to understand when you consider Trump’s pathology. If you believe he is a malignant narcissist —Musk is right up there, none of these actions come as a surprise.
What may have been surprising is how quickly and abruptly congress capitulated.
Um, half your country does not know right from wrong. That’s a fact. The layoffs are to replace the government with loyalists and effect a dictatorship. Less than 150 days to go.
W Drumpft’s admin I used to start from my baseline and then move towards batshit crazy and cruel to predict how far they’d go. I now find it more accurate to start from batshit crazy and cruel and move toward my baseline. Or … not move at all.
All you have to do is look at how Republicans responded to the AIDS crisis to know how they think and behave. They do not give a single fuck about any of us.
Molly, I did not grow up privileged and I am also taken back how terrible people are. I am having a very hard time with it as well. If you have any suggestions how to cope, let me know! I have to say, listening to you, @gtconway.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, and Tim Miller does help!
Not being snarky- fame and cultural influence greatly insulate from the brutal realities of working class people. It's been hard since Reagan jump-started this end-game with his privatization, deregulation and union-busting.
Just coming from money & privilege obscures a lot of it. I figure there's a good 30% of the country who don't understand the terroristic nature of mass firings.
It’s rare someone with your background ever sees that. Of course your cocktail party pals include cruel bullies and mendacious frauds. They just don’t harm you because you’re inside the bubble.
We all have a bubble. It may not be billionaires but those are the people who voted for the cruel billionaire bullies who are our sister father cousin neighbor etc…..
Whats happened to us makes no sense. It’s so dark, angry, and destructive. It’s us committing suicide. It can’t be an organic revolt; but rather a manipulation of our society; a soft attack by psy-ops campaigns that have aligned, foreign and domestic. This is not organic.
Many of us grew up in families that never considered that Evil was anything, but a perversity and the effect is that we are unprepared to believe that some people think that they will thrive by acting with that intent!
What profit in gaining the world, if you lose your soul!
These are Republicans. Have NEVER CHANGED. Thrive on hurting people. With words like Debt, Fiscal responsibility. Yet they steal from others to pay themselves, friends & cronnies.
I specifically put myself in spaces that are outside of my comfort zone. So that I can keep from complacency in my privileged bubble. Spending time alone where people are struggling will give you a far better view of why we are the way we are. We are so insulated these days, you have to seek it out.
I kept thinking maybe I was overreacting and all the pre-grieving was a mistake, so I pulled myself back and kept saying, I am sure it won't be as bad as I think. Well, I was right, it is worse. Every day is worse than what I imagined.
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Russ Vought didn’t just say he wanted to trim government. He said he wanted to inflict pain on federal employees. It’s sadly not surprising.
It’s actually very easy to understand when you consider Trump’s pathology. If you believe he is a malignant narcissist —Musk is right up there, none of these actions come as a surprise.
What may have been surprising is how quickly and abruptly congress capitulated.
Musk's was exclusionary .
What profit in gaining the world, if you lose your soul!
Nobody gets out of this life, alive; and you can't take it with you!
Those who practice EVIL, will suffer from it for all Eternity!
https://youtu.be/mNTc1eqXIz0?si=wWUoVynMiPld259m
Now I realize we’re the same assholes as everybody else, and far more racist than most.