This implies that they might be aware that centrist Dems aren't doing anything about climate change. Are they that cynical or do they naively believe that caring/believing = doing? 🤔 I can't tell
I'm coming to the belief that many liberals don't think things can really get much better, so stuff like acknowledgement and "feeling bad in the right way" are important to them because they think that's the best you can do with many of these issues.
I think it's related to the general political impotence people feel all over, the same impulse that makes people post political shit as though it's praxis. If you feel powerless, you maybe need to read more meaning into ultimately insignificant gestures to feel hope or whatever.
I think it's subconscious. For them politics is disconnected from material change so it's all about the identity/ personality/ opinions/ whatever of the politician, rather than what they actually do
This implies that they might be aware that centrist Dems aren't doing anything about climate change. Are they that cynical or do they naively believe that caring/believing = doing? 🤔 I can't tell
I'm coming to the belief that many liberals don't think things can really get much better, so stuff like acknowledgement and "feeling bad in the right way" are important to them because they think that's the best you can do with many of these issues.
I think it's related to the general political impotence people feel all over, the same impulse that makes people post political shit as though it's praxis. If you feel powerless, you maybe need to read more meaning into ultimately insignificant gestures to feel hope or whatever.
So like a genuinely stupid alienation without an outright commitment to ill will? Yeah i hope so
I think it's subconscious. For them politics is disconnected from material change so it's all about the identity/ personality/ opinions/ whatever of the politician, rather than what they actually do