Coping Mechanism

Nice NYT piece on how putting an idiot in charge will have us all dead soon, but the person in question is symptomatic of much that ails America. He just reached the pinnacle of power where others like him could not complete their ascent and therefore cannot cause as much harm. 

But the very existence of such a path starts with the ability to buy a place at colleges like Harvard. That makes it possible for one too many unqualified people to be in places they have no business being, bring the confederacy of dunces from their dorm rooms and frat-houses along for the ride, magnificently compounding the suffering of the society that is forced to endure them.

The average folks who had to earn their rights to be where they are in life get shafted. On an ordinary day, this manifests itself in diminished career opportunities, lack of social mobility, not being able to make ends meet, not being able to attain even middle class status despite being an educated two income family, not being able to shake off student loan debt, not being able to marry and have kids, going dead broke after a serious illness or a contentious divorce - and so much more.

In extraordinary times like now that could well mean winding up dead because the idiot in-charge decided the governor of NY is an alarmist and asking for one ventilator too many. Sadly, being snarky to express anger and frustration as this NYT author does, is not going to help any of us have a better shot at surviving this pandemic.