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Everyone insists it is brain damage or illness or whatever.
He is a con artist, plain and simple. He saw an opening to run on a populist platform and did. And then he very rapidly pivoted towards the party that will always vote for him no matter what he does.
The sad truth is that there are a LOT of very blatant con artists in the "leftist" sphere. Mostly we just don't talk about them because the hope is they are still doing more to "raise awareness" while they get rich or because... we just can't be bothered to deal with the massive waves of hatred that come the moment you point out the kind of stuff they say or just how massively rich they have become and so forth.
I agree with you 100%
And the thing about con artists is they're in it for the money. Everything is a sales pitch to them. There are no values, and the more you allow people to do this shit without calling it out, the more ammunition you give to the argument that voting is a waste of time bc they're all the same.
Somebody who is willing to advertise themselves as supporting something good, while accepting money from the people that are contributing to the thing they're calling bad ::cough:: Ro Kahnna ::cough::, is exactly the same as the people they're pretending to call out.
Their loyalty is to the highest bidder, not their values, or their party, and definitely not to the public.