90% of the phenomenon was professional managerial types leveraging protestant guilt against other professional managerial types to gain status and resources for themselves and their friends during a tough job market.

Just in time for the AfD to take over

The course outlined in the book would have the government in-house most of the functions that it currently outsources to private contractors. The central project is to restore personal agency to bureaucrats in addition to unhobbling the private sector

Not sure people will still feel this way after AfD comes into power

Let's displace NIMBY city councilmembers

Musa Al-Gharbi's book We Have Never Been Woke opened my eyes to the fact that politicians are mostly people who manipulate symbols for a living, so they vastly overrate the importance of symbolic factors like identity and presentation. See also, the storm in a teacup over Graham Platner's tattoo

It is liberal censoriousness actually.

the thing is, i think pete is fundamentally right: after the chaos of trump II, there will be an opportunity to rebuild things which have been broken for a long time. but doing that *well* will require a deeper analysis of what's gone wrong in our country.

www.liberalcurrents.com/reforging-am...

I think the guy you're responding to is pointing to a real tension between what the climate purists want and Gallego's program, but also I don't care. China's example shows that if we go all-in on more of everything, we'll still end up decarbonizing on net.