I’m not exactly sure what I’m trying to say with this cartoon.

I guess I’ve been thinking about how out of touch the upper echelons of society seem to be. From the complete lack of awareness of just how many people recognize the genocide in Gaza for what it is and are outraged that their governments are supporting it, to the utter disbelief that Kamala Harris would lose to Donald Trump by running solely on preserving a system that fails so many, to the absolute legions of everyday people cheering on the assassin of a health insurance CEO responsible for countless deaths – media figures, politicians, and business leaders continually show themselves to be out of step with the circumstances and beliefs of everyday people.

I’ve been interested lately in this apparent phenomena of those who succeed in spite of any mistakes or failures they’ve made along the way, taking their current success as validation of all their beliefs and actions – including their mistakes. They come to believe that they succeeded not in spite of those mistakes, but because of them.

Donald Trump spending $200,000,000 in anti-trans ads is being taken by both Democrats and Republicans as evidence that anti-trans attacks work – despite all other election data showing that it’s a losing issue. It’s awfully convenient to be able to blame a scapegoat like trans people when it covers up your own failure to run an effective campaign. This goes for both Harris and Trump.

Harris lost not because she was “too woke” – she ran a completely unwoke campaign that refused to push back on any identity politics based attack that Trump took – she lost because she offered nothing to nobody except more of the same as what has been screwing people over for the past… all of American history. They just took it as a given that Americans would want to preserve their precious institutions and would vote purely on their fear of a second Trump presidency.

Meanwhile, Trump won far less because of people’s investment in his bigotry, and more because the was a loud, famous strong man saying he’ll change things.

Both these sides are taking Trump’s victory to mean that what he says must be what people want. And they will be acting accordingly.

These same people are now telling people that they shouldn’t want health insurance CEOs to face repercussions for their evil business practices. They seem to have been caught completely off-guard by so many people having this much animosity towards a system that has been openly discussed across the culture and media for over 20 years as being broken and inhumane.

When they enact their policies based upon the assumption that what Donald Trump says is broadly popular, I wonder if they will be just as caught off-guard when people don’t like the results?

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