Stephen Miller

When I was in high school, maybe eleventh grade, we had a kid who, in retrospect, was kind of reminiscent of a young Stephen Miller. While he was never a hissing fascist slug, like Miller, he was similarly a bloviating asshole of unfortunate countenance, with a huge ego and an obvious lust for power.

Tonight I was reminded of him, and his Milleresque qualities. And it hit me: how could, essentially, the same personality, in two people, develop so differently over time? 

I googled that high school comrade several years back, and had a huge problem finding information. See, he had wanted to become a big time newscaster. I swear to Christ, he fucking idolized Bill Bonds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bonds). Worshipped him. Seemed to want to actually BE him. It was spooky-hilarious.

But, a big news anchor I did not find him having had become. In fact, I had a hell of a time finding much of anything, at all. I concluded things had not gone his way. Something must have happened to him, which didn't happen to Miller, and it knocked him from his power-lusting trajectory. He was also absolutely focused, like Miller, just not focused on sourcing many millions of body bags. He should have made SOME name for himself. Ego and determination can get a person places their natural talents could never get them, on their own.

Meanwhile, Miller, of whom there is enough old video to observe a true diabolical character arc over time, lands squarely on-target, emerging as the Nazi Nosferatu we all get the shivers from, today.

Ah, but then I recalled a core memory, and it seemed to describe a potential answer.

You see, to my knowledge Stephen Miller did not have what my big-nosed blunderbuss had: introverted, quiet me, driven batshit-insanely weary of this bloviating fathead, standing up at my desk, and telling him directly and loudly, that he was a "self-centered, egotistical megalomaniac."

I think maybe Stephen Miller needed someone to call him a fascist ghoul and a horror at a developmentally-plastic time of personal development. When things can have an impact.

Or, maybe he is just pissed about the fivehead.