| Paging @aeb-kun! The craft of "rationalist cover stories" as a class of band-aids! Remember how you failed to help "black people"? The people who make the dems what they are today seem to more than 2 steps removed from that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727418 The emotional concerns that underly this ineffective (akratic) behaviour seem to come from uh "rationalist suffering" (the modern day version of white man's burden?) Piketty 2022 section on Educational Justice (page 1007) thinks that its because dems are the overeducated children of the "Brahmin left". So I think you've got the right diagnosis- reps are the undereducated children of the "Merchant Right", so their rationalist* cover stories are naturally more convincing :) *Pecuniary===rational as in the "Legitimation Crisis" Ps: somewhat better (=less overtly social-darwinist) handwringing, but not quite a bandaid https://archive.ph/JC8Ip |