Good essay. I don't know if you remember after Obama won in 2008 a bunch of democratic party apparatchiks came up with this idea of "the coalition of the ascendant" and that they pretty much had the government locked in for a generation, due to support that would never waver for them amongst immigrants, yuppies, tech bros, etc. They didn't need the working class anymore and the Republicans would be the minority party for many years.
Two years later the democrats were wiped out in the midterms.
Libs in 2016: I love Bernie, it's just too bad about his age
Libs in 2020: Biden has a stutter. Don't be ageist.
Libs in 2024: We had no idea!
Clearly they should have pumped him full of unicorn blood and stem cells.
When the character that’s “driving” keeps moving the wheel back and forth just a tiny bit at a time.
He's trying to keep the "hands on the wheel" warning from going off.
As a friend once said "benzene is what anti-nuclear people think nuclear waste is."
The problem with this is that if billionaires just sat on their fortunes like a dragon sitting on treasure it would be much better than the way it is now, where they pump their billions into "nonprofits" that try to manipulate society to make it even better for them and worse for normal people.
Ok but why a raccoon?
Still not as bad as the pink fracking drill bit "for the cure."
And then spent the next several cycles systematically forcing anyone who supported him out of the party.