Weighing in here ... why not ...

You omitted the question mark so that the rhetorical nature of the “question” was understood I suppose. Unfortunately, too many of us understand the answer to the literal question. :|

It’s terribly ironic—one wonders if it wasn’t subconscious self-sabotage, if that isn’t the underlying motive to everything, if there isn’t some sort of satisfaction derived from the public humiliation—that you would suggest moving the steering wheel to the other side of the car…