There is something important I have learnt from this election

[ymetca]

18. The stronger baby bird pushes the weaker one from the nest to die...

You'd think we humans would be more evolved, more "humane" than that, but it's been a long, long, climb.

I try to tell my conservative friends that their boss doesn't just live in a bigger, nicer house anymore --the one they see behind gated walls in a luxurious neighborhood, with perfectly smooth asphalt roads, with lawns ever green, and water fountains a-billowing even in the dead of winter (their heated!). No, that turreted mansion is only one of dozens they own all over the world, along with yachts with built-in heliports, and fleets of private jets.

My conservative friends can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that if 99% of the population was completely on welfare, the entirety of that money would not add up to what a handful of plutocrats have. They can't comprehend it. They cannot understand that there is nothing anyone anywhere on Earth could ever do to "earn" that much money. They still think that brass ring could've been in reach if only they worked harder, or were smarter, more beautiful, talented, or just plain lucky.

When I tell them that their boss probably has a "peasant policy" on them, and will even benefit from their death, they just look at me dumbly, faces ashen, crestfallen.

Then they go out and buy more guns.