If I had to identify a line that best captures the spirit of our current elites, it might be the Joker’s crack from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight: “This town deserves a better class of criminal — and I’m going to give it to them.” Many of the shenanigans of the past few decades – pandemics, market manipulations, endless wars in the name of “democracy” – point to the work of criminals.
-WiscoDave