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The Real Lesson Trump Teaches
Why the end of the West was inevitable and what needs to be learned
For anyone with more than zero neurons functioning in their prefrontal cortex, Donald Trump’s infantile petulant destruction of the West is the metaphorical straw that broke the camel’s back. Qualification-free democracy, which arose by accident out of a series of short-term expedients with no one ever bothering to consider the inevitable consequences, is a system in which ignorant foolish people are permitted to vote for blustering cynical incompetents. It’s always produced low-quality outcomes but we’ve persisted in chanting a fantasy about democracy being better than all available alternatives.
So we’ve reached the end of the fantasy as democracy elevates bloated mental cripples like Trump and Orban, promotes acts of national suicide like Brexit, and ensures feeble-minded dictators like Putin can do whatever they want because hundreds of millions of self-obsessed complacent know-nothing voters will always favor appeasement over meaningful action — and the non-entities who sit atop the crumbling power structure know this very well. Windy speeches to make people feel good combined with near-total inaction is a winning formula.
Until you’re attacked.
