The human instinct to dominate others is normal

There have always been alpha males and alpha females. What is new is the choice of using government to be a tool of the alpha individual. And it has worked since the beginning of the income tax in the USA. The only way to agree with this, or change all this, is our vote in the new world, in our case the USA. In the old world, revolution and assassinations were too often a usual means compared to the vote. “Off with their head” was too often a real political solution.

The alpha instincts normally and usually get sorted out two ways in the USA. Both are losers for our future, and our progenies future. The issues are as simple to think about as the complicated issues of integrity and competence.

First most of we humans will support fellow human politicians if they would run on what they believe, vice what they say to get elected. This normal dance of history is amplified by the best propaganda politicians can buy, and money raising supports all this. Second is the competence issue which is a fair issue. Alpha individuals who want to play god with humans and animals have a bad and embarrassing record of performance. Let the examples be, for animals, Yellowstone Park; and for humans, the war on poverty in America. In both cases, the law of unintended consequences is the quaintest way to say we Americans can do better than this.

And better than this is our vote. While nothing is certain, one thing is certain. Alpha types are not running America. Americans are.