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People convinced of Elizabeth Warren’s ‘brilliance’ and pointing to her resume, academic career etc. as evidence of it really need to spend nonzero time grappling with where exactly she’d be right now if she hadn’t pretended to be an American Indian.
What Smart People are saying they’re impressed by when they point to Elizabeth Warren’s career is that they’re impressed by how she fucking faked her ethnicity to take advantage of stupid ‘diversity’ rules, to get ahead.

Smart People think that’s awesome. They’d all do the same.
What Warren represents isn’t ‘smart’ ‘technocracy’. It’s being a self-centered fucking phony who knows how to savvily navigate bureaucratic rules and do whatever it takes to climb ladders.

That’s what Smart People like and respect and value. Because, that’s their skill too!
This skill isn’t about either being ‘smart’ or doing anything good for anyone. It’s not ‘progressive’. It’s a social/economic sociopathic behavior-cluster that is 100% about grasping for what’s best for Me and Mine while engaging in nonstop doublethink about one’s motives.
See also: the ‘progressive’, ‘selfless’ values Smart ‘educated’ ‘progressives’ claim to hold while doing stuff like tax sheltering, structuring assets to get maximal financial aid when sending kids to college, exploiting tax rebates to buy a fancy electric car, or whatever.
So when Smart People performatively emote how sad they are that Warren hasn’t taken off, what they’re saying they’re sad about is that her savvy sociopathic social-climbing didn’t ‘work’ here. Understandably, they want that behavior (i.e., theirs) always rewarded.
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