People operate on several levels, but are usually only aware of their most superficial of thoughts which they confuse with being “who they are.” What’s running underneath, as the core code from our DNA blueprint, is the desire to pass our genes along.
As a social creature that confers a variety of mating strategies no different from the Bower bird’s elaborate nesting ornamentation, or the gaudy plumage of a healthy male Mandarin duck.
For humans that means resources. Thorstein Veblen described all of that perfectly well back in 1899 with his “Leisure Class” and “Conspicuous Consumption” observations, which I go into in the attached video.
Stripped down, his observations are human mating strategies. Resources mean your offspring will have a better chance of success, and signaling abundant resources is part of obeying our internal wiring.
All of which is a very roundabout way of saying the DC grifters who have long played the game of saying the right things to secure fat taxpayer-funded paychecks are not going to take the loss of those resources well.
In fact, they will fight with a passion best understood through the biological lens. Every organism will fight for its own physical survival, but we’ll fight even harder for our offspring. Or potential future offspring. Anything that takes away our potential to successfully mate will cause quite the reaction.
It’s more complicated than that too, but it’s a helpful way to frame what the next years and decades will bear. It will be something far more dramatic than …
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by barbarad 
