The rich will never, ever, ever believe that greater power for themselves will harm the country, because they believe they are the master race and know how to do everything better than the rest of us. To them, America’s great success after their counterparts were humiliated by the New Deal is only a pale shadow of what they would have accomplished if they’d stayed in charge – not because there’s any evidence of how that would have worked, but because it must be true, or their entire meritocratic fantasy is wrong.
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The rich will never, ever, ever believe that greater power for themselves will harm the country, because they believe they are the master race and know how to do everything better than the rest of us. To them, America’s great success after their counterparts were humiliated by the New Deal is only a pale shadow of what they would have accomplished if they’d stayed in charge – not because there’s any evidence of how that would have worked, but because it must be true, or their entire meritocratic fantasy is wrong.