America is not a meritocracy. People are routinely appointed to positions they have no business being in.

Also, Kennedy represents a crowd that is fundamentally lost to a social media reinforced “vibes based” reality. These people can live a solid major of their day without encountering objective reality. Their worlds are built around bullshit machines incentivised to feed them an ever increasing amount of bullshit.

These people votes, drive cars, have children, and carry firearms. So you can see why this place is so fucked.