trying to replace the american dream, by el gato malo

Tell 100 million people (conservative estimate) slaughtered by collectivist regimes just in the twentieth century about the warmth of collectivism. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:

in moderation, tolerance is a virtue but in excess it becomes the direst of vices

zohran’s innuagural speech was quite the revelation.

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say what you will about mamdani, but the man knows his audience:

“we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

this bald statement, shocking in its un-americanism, resonates easily with immigrants from places where “the role of government is to codify which tribes may without repercussion plunder the others” but what people miss is that it is also the exact sort of invitation to adult romper room that the midwit and sub-midwit domestic youth, raised on DEI and “everyone gets a trophy” and over-educated in the false promises of cargo cult college, are clamoring for.

it’s a magical land where others take care of you and you never really need to grow up or do hard things or stew in jealousy of the people who are doing better than you are. these are easy troops to mobilize. your failure to launch and attain the status of the secret special you that you know in your bones to be your deserved lot in life is never your fault. someone did it to you. so let’s get them!

the politics of envy as self-righteousness find unerring mark and fertile soil among overproduced elites. they are the 50th and 60th percentiles led to expect 90th percentile lives and careers that were never in the cards for them, hungry in their overwrought expectations and entitled by the grievance cultures in which they were weaned. they are sure that they are somehow put out, put upon, and that someone has cheated them. it turns out that the equity, inclusion, and participation prizes and gold stars that they were told to expect were never real.

but they want them just the same.

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