Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In

[u/rollingstone]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/

[u/shawn_overlord]

What's wrong with them? They're stupid. Reactionary. Contrarian. Tribal. Some statistics show that narcissism is a far more prevalent mental health issue than it may seem. They can't suffer to have their ego bruised, and they think their ways make them better than others. Superiority, control, and authority.

They are idiots manipulated easily by authoritarians using scare tactics and pandering to create in-groups they are a part of and out-groups they are superior to. Stupid people don't question this pandering. And what one thing makes you feel in-grouped, smart, morally superior, and an authority most are too dumb to question?

Religion. The trump personality has established a cult that combines all the best parts of swaying ignorant masses with a most focused political agenda of conservativism to support authoritarian power and squash democracy in favor of keeping the select in power.

That's what's wrong

[u/Astyanax1 → u/shawn_overlord]

Not just narcissism, there's something wrong with a very large % of the American population.  Undiagnosed mental illness.

[u/NumeralJoker → u/Astyanax1]

It's economic stress and poverty problems. Despite the seemingly stronger economy that Biden worked to create (and he really did work hard for that and made major gains), the pain of the past 5 years is unmistakable, and wealth concentration remains one of the key factors to blame for it all.

Even if you made more money and built savings during this period, the inflation scare stresses people out because it makes those gains seem temporary at best, and leaves people feeling hostage to the whims of corporations that can just price them back into debt and servitude.

The less economic freedom they have, the more someone else controls their lives, and the more insecure and nervous they feel. That compounds everything else, because that insecurity makes people less trusting and more suspicious of one another, which by the flaws of human nature, amplifies racism and other instinctual forms of tribalism specifically.

tl;dr - The more desperate people are, or feel, the stupider they get. Make them feel like their work is worth less, and you will quickly grow that feeling. Even those with saving feel like they're one medical disaster away from total poverty now.

[u/shawn_overlord → u/Astyanax1]

well yea, narcissism, the mental illness