Run of the mill victim-blaming and psycholigizing. Most so-called leaders are not picked by the everyman but by powerful people, like lesser leaders or people w

Run of the mill victim-blaming and psycholigizing. Most so-called leaders are not picked by the everyman but by powerful people, like lesser leaders or people who need frontwomen/frontmen. Then some times (like the US presidential elections) the everyman gets to pick among a few (like two) of them after having been filtered down mostly by those more powerful people. The duopoly of the US[1] has been moving to the right for decades. Which might not be obvious since the Republicans are so good at being extremists that one can be fooled into thinking that the Democrats are a left-wing party, even though they’re a business-aligned, right-wing party with some nice-on-social-issues tendencies. I guess the decades of having to choose between not-that-different candidates might push some people towards a “left field” candidate. And in 2016 the more reactionary petite bourgeoisie managed to boost Donald Trump into snatching a victory (somewhat barely). But there was also the other left field candidate Bernie Sanders, who was not a notorious liar but was still popular. But tellingly the Establishment would rather let a terrible right-wing buffoon win rather than a social democrat, so Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump was a given since the Democratic Primaries started. [1] Disclaimer: not an American.