The same simple-minded people who refused vaccines because they hate experts and feel like victims are now, under Trump, using the same angry, us-versus-them thinking to scream about Epstein—proving that they don't actually believe in anything except fighting whoever they're told to fight.
Epstein: A perfect case Study of the "pack mentality"
It's funny how the common people who shouted about not wanting to get vaccinated, now that they're the ones in power through Trumpism, have become the pack that shouts against those who don't believe in the Epstein buzz.
It's revealing how unreliable these people are. And how unbearable this form of populist fascism becomes when it's in power.
A perfect case study of the "pack mentality".
The same cognitive apparatus that drove the anti-vaccine position—distrust of institutions, privileging visceral intuition over expert consensus, rage at perceived elite control—is now being redeployed in service of a different emotional target.
The anti-vaxxer and the Epstein truther are not separate species. They are the same animal.
The contentlessness of populist consciousness. There is no fixed ideology, no stable set of principles. There is only:
An enemy (yesterday: pharma companies/CDC; today: the "deep state" protecting Epstein's secrets)
A grievance (yesterday: bodily autonomy violated; today: justice denied)
A savior figure who channels the rage
When Trumpism holds power, the pack doesn't become responsible or moderate. It becomes the new enforcer. The outsider mentality persists even when they're inside—they still see themselves as victims, still identify enemies, still demand purity tests.
The unbearable quality is precisely this: populism in power is not governance, it's perpetual opposition wearing a government mask.
They cannot govern because governance requires:
Accepting trade-offs
Distinguishing between urgent and merely enraging
Trusting some institutions enough to let them function
Temporarily setting aside grievance to achieve incremental progress
None of these are available to the pack. So when they win, they don't build—they hunt. The Epstein case becomes a cudgel, not a pursuit of justice. The vaccine mandate opponents, now empowered, don't champion medical freedom for all—they champion their own freedom while demanding conformity from others.
The unreliability is structural. Today's liberator is tomorrow's tyrant, because the only constant is the emotional architecture, not the political content.
If you define yourself only by opposition to your enemies, then when you win you become the enemy. That is what these simple-minded people failed to understand. And why they, in turn, will be driven out.
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Modern financial system is on the brink of a collapse mirroring 2008, not due to the size of the losses themselves, but due to their opaque nature. This abstract danger is invisible to the general public, whose inability to grasp such complexity reveals a fundamental flaw in democracy, proving it to be a system destined for failure.
The Incompetence of the Masses: The Inability to Grasp Abstraction
The masses are incapable of abstract reasoning. They can only react to concrete, binary events (a price change, a visible loss). They cannot comprehend non-linear relationships, cascading failures, or the fragility of trust.
This cognitive limitation renders them unable to understand, let alone solve, the complex problems of the modern, hyper-technical world. The idea that a "collective intelligence" emerges from this sum of individual incompetence is a myth; instead, the crowd functions as a "reactive memory," a "beast" that only responds to primal stimuli.
The Inevitable Consequence: Democracy as the "Government of the Incompetent"
If the masses are incapable of reasoned judgment, then democracy—which asks them to decide on complex issues—is fundamentally irrational. It is not an "intelligent system" designed for optimal outcomes, but merely an emotional decision-making algorithm.
This explains its tragic paradox: the masses are often right to revolt against injustice, but they are emotionally driven and always end up electing "Hitlers and Trumps." They seek a "provoman" to channel their anger rather than governing themselves.
By choosing to delegate their power to such intermediaries, the people are fully responsible for their own downfall, proving that democracy is ultimately the government of the incompetent, incapable of securing peace or rational self-governance.