Not long ago, Democrats were convinced that Kamala Harris was the best candidate in the history of democracy. The media praised her competence, intelligence, and experience.
The same thing happens in Germany. Government politicians talk about how amazing the country is and how great their achievements are—every single one of them. The current president even said, “We live in the best Germany that ever existed,” just a couple of weeks ago.
But it turned out Kamala Harris was one of the weakest candidates in modern history. And it turned out that the last several German governments have run the country so deeply into the ground that only massive new debt can ensure pensions are still paid out next year.
So why do politicians and pundits keep talking about how wonderful everything is when reality is the complete opposite?
The answer might be: Politics is like the stock market. And politicians are just CEOs.
Not long ago, Germany was shaken by a huge scandal involving a company called Wirecard. It was essentially a PayPal clone with German roots, reporting massive profits in the Asian digital payments market. The company rose quickly, making it into the DAX—the German equivalent of the S&P 500. Politicians proudly presented Wirecard as a “tech success made in Germany” and praised its two leading figures as symbols of German innovation.
But everything Wirecard reported turned out to be a lie.
The company inflated its stock price with fake financial reports and transactions that never happened, all while being possibly connected to Russian and Chinese intelligence networks. Wirecard collapsed just as fast as it had risen.
During its rise, Wirecard’s CEO constantly celebrated the company’s numbers in the spotlight. His second-in-command was hailed as a young tech genius—the next “Steve Jobs,” as they always say. Both enjoyed the fame. Even when the first reports surfaced claiming Wirecard might be nothing more than a bubble, they stayed calm and talked about a bright future.
When it all fell apart, one of them vanished somewhere in the East—possibly Russia—beyond the reach of Western law enforcement. The other, the official CEO, still insists the company wasn’t a fraud and claims he could have saved it if only he’d been given more time.
In short: nobody in charge ever took responsibility. They never admitted any wrongdoing. They didn’t even acknowledge the reality of the fraud after the bubble burst. Not. A. Single. Time.
And isn’t that exactly what we see in politics today?
Politicians always talk about how great things are—even when they’re not. As long as they’re in charge, everything is supposedly perfect. And when they’re out of power, they insist everything will be perfect if we just vote them back in.
It’s like stock-price management: never admit mistakes, never discuss problems, always insist everything is fine—because anything else would drive the “stock price” down.
In politics, we voters are the stock price. And they try to lie, deceive, and manipulate their way into higher voter numbers at all cost. Even after their bubble—or an entire country—has burst, they still pretend everything was fine.
It’s pure psychopathy. Pure stock-market bullshit.