I know Neolibs are lanyard-strangled psychopaths, but jesus christ, we thought Hillary 2016 was devoid of policy?
The shit they screamed about Hillary being "the perfect candidate, aktually" and having the most "credentials" and experience was at least based on actual accomplishments (evil imperialist accomplishments, of course, but accomplishments, especially in her fanbase's eyes).
Now they're just sadly masturbating over things like "Joe Biden's dad drove a chevy thunderbird", "Biden's a jungle camo enthusiast", "There is no flavor of ice cream Biden doesn't enjoy", "George Takei and Biden were once at the same baseball game."
Trillbillies called the Democratic Party nothing more than a lifestyle brand at this point, and even that might be giving it too much credit.
This is all they got to be excited about. And they are so fucking pissed and so fucking confused about the fact that normal people aren't excited by it at all.
The idea of 'completeness' is kind of interesting, in an American context
College admissions realize the bad optics of having only white men people attend a college, and under pressure add 'completeness'--an interesting story, a variety of interests, athleticism, student civic engagement, etc.
So, what, is an intellectual who doesn't play sports or have the time or interest in extracurricular resume-padding have a less 'complete' existence? Is there some kind of calculus one can do to determine someone's humanity and self-actualization at the wise old age of 18?
But this kind of meritocratic outlook probably appeals to neoliberals--the idea that every human is a walking resume, and that they can add shit to themselves like a character in an RPG to become more valuable and more of a benefit to society, despite that specialization of labor has done a lot more to drive civilization than having a multitude of 'hobbies' that not only mean nothing, but that you don't even like
I distinctly remembering listening to a self-proclaimed (later disavowed) neo-Nazi complain about growing up with ethnic minorities--to the effect of "I got good grades, I played an instrument, I did martial arts, how could I not see myself as better?" (This guy was a terminally online beanpole in his twenties at the time.) In the mindframe of seeing humans as just pieces to be slotted into a hierarchy, I can see where this thinking came from
This form of existence is just capitalist spiritualism. As capitalism vaporizes everything to dust and destroys the very world itself down to the metaphysical, there's nothing left but to preform for the devouring machine and hope it might notice you before it consumes you whole.