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Quarrelsome Life's avatar

When one looks at the suicidal idiocy of Germany's energy policy in which they turn off nuclear plants in favour of coal power plants during an energy crisis and ongoing European war, this point of yours becomes fully tangible: "if climate advocates cannot be trusted to see a policy that is one of the safest, most impactful for emissions, and guarantee of energy independence, right in front of their eyes, can the be trusted with other policies?" However, when one also looks at (1) the myopic Scapegoating of ruminant farming and psychotic calls for herd culling in Netherlands and Ireland during a global food crisis in which increasing millions are starving and undernourished worldwide (2) the relentless fervour of bourgeois activists who don't seem to give a toss about poorer people unless they are far flung "noble savages" (3) the cowardly and arrogant suppression of debate on important topics through the use of slurs like "climate denier" which plays off the emotional weight of "Holocaust denier", a larger trend emerges.

We are living through a quasi-religious moral panic of which alarmist Climatism is but one manifestation. Rainbow Reich Victimism is another. As was totalitarian Covidianism. Just as nature abhors a physical vacuum, human nature abhors a metaphysical one. The God shaped hole will be filled with something. And on this, the successful European right is offering a much brighter vision for life and for the future than the left: a vision based typically on faith, family, and flag. Leftist trope visions for the future involving bug protein, lab grown goo burgers, car-less "15 minute cities", and the indoctrination of children into identifying as asexual ghosts that go on to get surgically mutilated and chemically castrated are not so attractive to normie working people. The left has a lot of work to do. Nice piece again man 👌

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I think the issue you're raising speaks to a contradiction (or example of cognitive dissonance) at the heart of the post-60s Left: one one hand (or brain sphere) constructing plans for a more fair and compassionate world to raise and benefit those at the bottom of the social pyramid and styling your cohort as the enlightened leaders of the future; but on the other hand, basically saying "I love you, you're perfect—now change" to all those you propose to lead, and never not gazing down in scorn at the tastes, beliefs and arrangements of the lesser orders, who may not know much but know when they're being condescended to.

If the future of society/politics depends upon the upscale globalist Left dropping their scorn for anyone not like them, then we're all truly fucked: as much as these people want to hog assets and accolades, they want to hog virtue even more.

History is filled with episodes of various priests and true believers preferring to go down with the ship and jump in the fire rather than renounce the holy cause (and the halo of being god's chosen one aka moral superiority), and I see no reason to think this will be any different.

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