Except in every step things can develop the ways you haven’t thought about.

And courtroom shows are kinda common enough in movies and even in reality. People will have strong feelings, but this doesn’t seem a major thing for many.

So - too much copium. I hope you are right and I am wrong, of course.

Yes, but you are not in a situation where you can have that great power and can’t be certain until then.

It’s legal in Russia too at this point. That’s not what I mean. Wealthy people in Russia own nothing really - they are just pockets of Putin. Less wealthy people are just elements of various mechanisms, legal and not, able to steal according to their status. Less wealthy than them - those who do honest business, but pretend the competition is not stifled by various invisible limitations by connections. The lower it gets, the more it is like normal stuff, but one can feel that something is wrong even arriving from Yerevan to Moscow, and Armenia is quite oligarch-owned too.

In Russia there are no CEOs to kill. People in such positions are kinda normal and everyone knows where real power lies, and those holding it can’t be so easily caught.

No, I get how it’s in the USA. Matches your description. Still radically different from Russia.

Actually a lot of “normal” people do want that.

And many even not very “normal” people may easily lose their mind thinking they have the opportunity to become powerful.

Ah.

As an ADHD person. Generalizing, strategizing, finding critical points and all that are too very important tasks. Many people seem to think these are equivalent to “doing the least amount of work”. That’s simply not true and you can compare a group where everyone linearly and with great effort always does something and where nobody does the generalizing and strategizing or even failure finding tasks, inevitably spending a lot of time chilling looking at the clouds or just thinking, to a group built normally. A hint - the latter will perform much better.

And as an ASD person. You heavily underestimate the importance and uniqueness of skills for the political part. People who become CEOs are usually incredibly gifted in that direction. I’m impaired in that direction even compared to most people, so I can see just how important it is.

And in general about assholes and not being able to figure something out … humanity works by Darwin’s laws. No matter what morality you preach in schools, no matter how much you talk about love and helping each other, the people on top are very capable. If you want something to change in any order of things, you should first accept the fact that their power is perpetually challenged and they win against those challenges preserving that power. They are quite smart.

They may see some things with aberrations. We all do.

But looking at those people and saying they understand something worse than you is similar to Soviet propaganda talking about Western world as something which is going to rot on its own, because its strategy for the future is so much dumber than the Soviet one. The weaker side does not win by being arrogant in addition to weakness.

Did these human persons speak anyone outside their immediate circle in the last three decades?

After late 90s and early 00s it seems that this has become rare.

First “speaking outside your immediate circle” has moved into interwebs. Second the interwebs have changed to no longer inconvenience those who don’t want to see contradicting worldviews.

Just saying. CEOs are, of course, more isolated than many people. But their delusions are not unique by any measure.

It’s different people. Those in US still own real things and do something with them to get such incomes.

Those in Russia steal.

In other words, in USA connections are means to help actual power and tools to actual power. In Russia it’s the other way around, actual power is all dependent on connections, which ultimately all go to one ruling group.

It’s nowhere as bad. But it will get as bad as Russia, of course, if Americans don’t learn something.

You haven’t been to Russia.

I know a school shooting up which wouldn’t be a huge crime. Back then, that is. Now I can’t be certain.