​DNC Emails Reveal The Fatheaded Stupidity of Rich Liberals

The Soul-Sick Leadership Elite in America

​Mass movements are always full of stupid fatheads who are easy to exploit, gullible, and vain, who then circle around, pat each other on the back and make each other feel good. It's the whole point of the mass movement.

"It’s the indirect costs that are high; if anyone wonders why so many of our career politicians are cynics with deep contempt for the public they serve, years of fawning over dumb rich people, pretending to take their silly ideas seriously, assuring each of them that you aren’t like the other stupid rich people, no, you are special, you are smart, and our ten minutes a year friendship punctuated by check writing is deep and sincere—all this tends to corrode the soul. Having a political class who subsist on exploiting the character weaknesses and insatiable narcissism of dilettante plutocrats isn’t the best way to cultivate an ethos of responsibility and patriotism at the highest levels of government.

The fatheaded stupidity of rich liberals is the subtext of the hacked emails: how easily they are exploited, how gullible their vanity makes them, how pathetically eager they are for the hollow satisfaction of a seat next to the powerful. In one sense it’s refreshing: great wealth does not in fact make a nincompoop powerful. Also, it suggests that the real problem with our republic is that what should be our leadership elite is soul-sick: vain, restless, easily miffed, intellectually confused, jealous…

The sense that people like this—a mix of knaves and fools—are running both parties has a lot to do with the anger that fueled both the Sanders and the Trump campaigns. There’s a spiritual disease at work in this, and over time it has the ability to wreck not just individual souls, but our free institutions and the rule of law itself."

This is one of the pleasures of living in Portlandia. So many people are liberal, and wealthy. A night of listening to the silly ideas of this crowd is deeply disturbing. In any moment, these chuckles heads are laying out well intentioned plans to destroy the lower class, sabotage the economy, or tax the productive out of existence.