I like to think I’m intuitive, but sometimes I’m just wrong. That certainly may be the case here, but I think that it is worth pointing out, if you study the lives and minds of successful dictators, of successful oppressors, most of them are not anywhere near as smart as they think they are. Most of them are sociopaths, and like all sociopaths, they are narcissistic. This means that they are not without intelligence, but that they make stupid mistakes at times because they are arrogant and at times impetuous.
And if you look at, say, the Nazis, or the Bolsheviks, most of them were individually pretty dull people.
Here is the thing: life and its creative energy spring from life, which can only exist in relaxed, playful moments and days. How COULD anyone who is wound up by fear and hate every day become genuinely interesting, genuinely original?
Such people get control and power only because they are obsessed with it, since only that soothes the pain they feel each and every day. The rest of us, of course, are then left to deal with the consequences of their emotional ailments.
I like this line, so I will repeat it: Leftist politics provide a morality for narcissists, a means for sociopaths, and a rationalization for those with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Joe Biden, by the way, is clearly the second. He is a sociopath who has never cared what the truth was, but who lately can’t even remember what the truth is.