Trump is talking about 20%+ GDP growth.Musk is talking about living to be 150+ years.What are these people on?They are psychotic patients, like schizophrenics.Upper drugs can do this: create delusion or loss of touch with reality, especially grandiose delusions. Are the Western upper classes chronic drug addicts? Or have they just gone insane?Because this kind of thinking is not in touch with reality. Compare today's ruling class to Western kings and intellectuals in the 1700s, who emphasized reason above all else. Today's rulers are lunatics who lack reason.They're living in an alternate reality.The best explanation is probably just that the ruling classes in the West have had it so good for so long during the neoliberal era (outsourcing, immigration for cheap labor and to weaken popular opposition, historically low taxes, free trade agreements, deregulation, depoliticization to put decision making authority into the hands of technocrats and erode popular sovereignty etc.) that their brains have launched into outer space and they have lost contact with planet Earth. This is the epitome of decadence -- textbook decadence. It's probably also why the West is doomed and on its way out, to be replaced by societies that are grounded, realistic, have reasonable goals etc.
>>525966853>For most of America, the headlines trumpeting a “strong economy” and “stocks at record highs” land like a cruel joke. Michael W. Green’s recent series My Life Is A Lie attempted to quantify the economic devastation felt by the majority of the country these many years. This carnage has been sanctified by our technocrats—an Aztec priesthood invoking sacred economic statistics as celestial omens to justify the ritual sacrifice of society on the altars of GDP and the S&P 500.Yes, our elites sound like Aztec priests in the early 1500s announcing the Golden Age on the horizon while the society is actually about to implode.This level of delusional thinking among elites is how civilizations implode.https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/forgotten-man
When I was a little kid my mom was very politicially active and got me into the bush-gore controversy in 2000. If I had never cared about political shit that doesn't change anything ever I probably would be a divorced 30yo man who never sees his kid. A better fate than my current existence.
>>525966853>Are the Western upper classes chronic drug addicts?>Or have they just gone insane?I'm sure insanity plays in, but the drugs are well known right? Elon's on ketamine, the tech CEOs microdose LSD (perversely so they can be better employees), and I don't know what they pump into Trump to keep that soon-to-be-octogenerian awake and alert for his press junkets but it's gotta be strong stuff.
>>525966853They are in a current state of euphoria. The scales were always tipped heavily in their favour, but now they rule the world even more so and are completely free from anyone to challenge them, be it the general public or the government. This will continue until America's complete decline. The next president must persecute every tech CEO and billionaire who attempted to rape the world and make our lives worse.
>>525967214>They are in a current state of euphoria.They're definitely euphoric. They're like manic patients.
>>525967340Nothing will change. The democrats believe that these tech CEOs can be swayed to their side. They will probably get into office in 2028. But /pol/ doesn't need to worry, because they will just elect another republican in 2032. The cycle will continue forever, until it won't.
>>525966853boomers are eternally stuck in 1980 in their nice gated communities, meanwhile the entire culture and society is a dumpster fire
>>525966853They're just lying to you budThe masses eat it up because they can't think
>>525966853You are losing kikeYour empire of debt and fraud is being picked apart piece by piece, exactly like you did to many countries in recent histoy.
