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Well, he's causing another great recession?
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Is this a confession? "Yea he may have willingly joined parties where people fiddled kids, he may even have done some himself. But he has also done great stuff (?) so that is fine."
Problem is, he has legitimately not done even one great thing over both terms.
People genuinely admire the rich. I think some cultural norms/lessons with good intentions may have backfired and made it even worse. I remember being taught not to be jealous of others, not to compare myself to them, not to keep up with the Joneses, and that a person can do whatever they want if they put their mind to it and work hard.
Those might individually be good things for one to practice, and I am going to keep doing so.
But at the same time... those lessons are not supposed to be taken as bidirectional rules of nature! A good person doing those things does not imply that a billionaire is the rare individual that is 1000x visionary and hard working, 1000x not to be envied or judged, and 1000x deserving. Oh yeah, 1000x noble and not at all 1000x sociopathic or obsessed.
The really insane part is that the "really great things" he has done is be rich. The religion that the religious right actually worships and actively practices is "wealth and power". They have taken the mantra that "god will reward faithfulness" so thoroughly and seriously that they 100% believe that the fact that he is wealthy and powerful means that whatever he is doing is the right thing because otherwise God would not continue to reward him.
This is why they actively defend and encourage whatever he does, because God continues to reward him. If God doesn't punish him then whatever he is doing is what God wants. Even the child fucking is righteous because if it wasn't, then God would put a stop to it. And the victims deserve no mercy because they obviously are not loved by God or else they wouldn't be in a position to be victimized.
The irony, even if that God nonsense were true, God isloterwlly trying really fucking hard to punish him though all thrse human channels, very obviousky, the files, the trials, and his demon guardians proclaim he is righteous and the Idiot Cult laps it all up while claiming its "God protecting him" or some shit.
"He did some good things."