but conservatives started to lose an intra-liberal fight and decided to reject society as a concept. the defining question of our time is basically liberalism or barbarism

“Rent seeking “ is something that doesn’t get talked about enough by lay people and non-specialist pundits in terms of what makes our political economy the way it is

honestly, it would be good if education depolarized so that when republicans won elections we got things like "the NSF is going to prioritize research with more immediate industrial applications" rather than "science is woke and gay so we're burning it down". but I don't see a way out.

The problem here is that Dems are not acting like human beings. They are not acting like they care about any of this, or are part of any of this. They act like space aliens constantly looking for a new strategy to convince everyone they're a real human person.

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