stop comparing them to children!
There is no escape of the frequent comparisons of supposedly immature rich and powerful people to none other than children. If they’re not compared to children, then certainly called mentally ill, immature or cognitively maladjusted. I should not have to explain why this is harmful to children and the mentally ill, but unfortunately I do. Not only are these comparisons perpetuating a stigma that mentally ill people are evil, it is diminishing the capabilities of these ultrarich and extremely powerful people turning them into a spectacle to ridicule, not to combat.
People like Trump, Musk, Thiel, Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. are not comparable to any other group, least of all to the ones I listed above. They are mature adults capable of making decisions and, for all we know, are mentally sane. Them acting in ways we (on the political left) disapprove of does not negate their sanity nor their maturity. That group of people simply has more power than any of us could fathom. Their decisions and actions are not only rational, they’re to be expected from people who have attained and are in those positions, and that’s the danger. If we keep ridiculing their actions as immature or mentally ill, we are reinforcing the assumption that any human could be “good” with power over others. You have to have been evil to attain it at all! We lose sight of what it means to think you are above almost everyone else. Most dangerously, though, we lose sight of what it means to have a society in which some people have the power to substantially dictate the way life is lived by others, for better or for worse. There is no way in which any of this could be “made” “good”.
I realize that a great many of the voices singing those comparisons like a choir are only doing so to make sense of the fucked up reality we live in. That is an explanation of their behavior, though never an excuse. By comparing these power-holders to children they are inadvertently implying they’re developmentally disabled since to all eyes, their bodies look fully developed, however, if the critics are to be believed, physical appearances do not match their targets’ mental abilities. Combined with the source of these comparisons frequently coming from the left where that social class is commonly considered evil, you are lumping it together with those most vulnerable to the harmful decisions sponsored by the group you are supposedly attacking. You are only harming those who have nothing to do with this!
If you are living in some kind of alternate universe in which children attain positions of power where they are not only capable of commanding people, there are millions of them choosing to subject themselves to their command, I’d like to interview you.