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Jiang agrees that modern elites can also narrate their ego as a world-improving mission, so self-importance by itself does not distinguish Dante from them.
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Politicians
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Jiang defines successful politicians as opportunists with no ideas or principles, motivated first by political power.
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He argues politicians and oligarchs do not care about arresting the crisis because they are trying to extract as much wealth as they can before the whole system collapses, and he presents that looting logic as the reason America behaves as it does.
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"...mindset is also in those big taxi rides? Tech CEOs and politicians' minds that they actually are doing something that they turn their ego..."
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"You know, because everyone believes this. Right? So what's the difference between them and Dante? Okay. Well, the answer is faith, hope, and love."
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"...I mean, like, what is really frustrating is just how the politicians don't seem to care. They don't care. The oligarchs don't care. They're..."
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"...Second thing is that the thing to know about very successful politicians is they are first and foremost opportunists. They have no ideas. They..."
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"...sense? Okay? So that's the thing you need to know about politicians, okay? All they care about is political power. They will do anything..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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A dated May 2024 election model: Biden's 2020 coalition weakens, the suburbs become the hinge, and Trump can win by turning Nikki Haley from enemy into evidence that he has changed.
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