Aceticon , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Pretty much the entirety of mainstream political speech boils down to the Elites being special and what is good and proper for them is not the same as what is good and proper for the rest, both in terms of what they can do and what can be done to them.

And this is in all political regimes, Democracy as much as Autocracy.

So the only surprise there can be in this comes from generally in Democracy the “we are different from you” kind of speech tends to be far more subtle and indirect (say, justifying politicians exclusion from certain surveillance laws due to their “responsibilities” or having law apply differently to “businesses” which is just a way to act towards the wealth of the Owner class differently than towards that of the Worker class), so some people hadn’t yet spotted how throroughly normalized and generally applied the double standard of the Elites is.

For anybody trying to look at the forest rather than getting fixated on individual trees, this stuff is immediately obvious as absolutely within the general pattern of behaviour of these people (it’s the mainstream politicians that do NOT think like this that are the exceptional ones).