"We get the leadership we deserve." is the kind of statement you can only make if you have never once in your life reflected on who you mean when you say "we", and who you are leaving out.
Who is "we"? Because there's a "we" who did this and a "we" it was done to.
Who is "we"? Because there's a "we" who did this and a "we" it was done to.
Have you not been paying attention to the fact that there are people who aren't allowed to vote? Whose votes aren't counted? Whose votes are abstracted away by gerrymandered district lines?
We did not all get an equal say in the decisions that led us here and we do not all have the same exposure to the consequences, and by and large the people whose game it is and the people whose skin is in it are not the same people.
But, oh. It sounds so wise and worldly and world-weary. "We get the leadership we deserve." Such a clever sentiment, so darkly self-effacing. Let me just applaud your cynical wit. You must be quoting somebody very deep, remembering something very important you read once.
Even if there's some of among us who deserve Trump and Gohmert and McConnell in power... Trump and Gohmert and McConnell don't deserve that power.
I don't know where the concept of "deserving" even entered the political landscape. I don't know why. I don't know what it's doing there and I don't trust it.
Rights aren't about deserving.
As Hamlet said, "Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?"
Rights aren't about deserving.
As Hamlet said, "Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?"
