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Our elected officials and their appointments are all greedy, opportunistic bastards, a reflection of the people they govern. Garbage in, garbage out.
Our people would have to abandon their delusions of living materially superior lifestyles to other Americans if we wanted to have politicians and judges appointed by politicians that even entertain the notion of their offices being public service and not just another all American profit grift as they are treated today.
Our nation and increasingly the world under our capitalist's pressure live solely by "what's in it for MEEEEEE?"
In what fucking universe could anyone credibly think that a culture, society, or civilization dominated by the core value of ~~rational self-interest~~ insatiable greed could ever yield selfless public servants?
The concept of private property, not to be confused with personal property, is dooming us all, and we're all so indoctrinated into the zero sum mindset of "other people have to lose for me to feel like a big winnah" that I don't see any hope without a painful collapse to remind us all of the human suffering we inflict on swaths of people, like our homeless populations, with complete apathy under this garbage culture and economy.
Clarance Thomas, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, etc are all symptoms of the greed disease that's killing us. If they all dissappeared tomorrow, there'd be 2 greedy assholes each the next day vying to take their places and take up their grift. Our practiced core values would have to change for that to change.
They won't change though, so carry on with the ironic outrage about this greedy opportunist doing what we're all encouraged to do from Kindergarten through Colleges of Economics: doing what he can get away with to get his, and fuck everyone else 🇺🇸