Mostly they’re just neoliberals. They’re in it for the pay, pension, insider trading and open bribes. The only thing they’re interested in “leading” is other pigs to the trough.
But as a means to that end, they’ve spent decades pandering to every form of bigotry and idiocy they could wring a vote from and now it’s starting to consume them from the inside out.
They’re not worth any sympathy though. If their fascist faction started dragging black people from their homes and executing them, they’d only be upset that they couldn’t use them as slaves to maximise profits.
Mostly they’re just neoliberals. They’re in it for the pay, pension, insider trading and open bribes. The only thing they’re interested in “leading” is other pigs to the trough.
But as a means to that end, they’ve spent decades pandering to every form of bigotry and idiocy they could wring a vote from and now it’s starting to consume them from the inside out.
They’re not worth any sympathy though. If their fascist faction started dragging black people from their homes and executing them, they’d only be upset that they couldn’t use them as slaves to maximise profits.