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I could feel this in myself. I want Biden to be president, but my experiences with the left this last year still gave me a little shot of joy every time Trump did well

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Alex Tabarrok

@ATabarrok

Nov 4, 2020

My takeaway is that a large number of people HATE the cultural left (not the econ left) and are willing to put up with almost anything, including incompetence, chaos, corruption and bad policy, to signal their views loud and clear.

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So basically, you are all babies in the US? Like, this kind of conduct - willingness to put up with almost anything, including incompetence, chaos, corruption and bad policy - just to signal cultural views is not what an adult would do. It's a conduct of some bratty teen.

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Yeah, no.

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Nobody here are bratty teens. Nobody is a baby. Everyone has valid reasons for feeling the way they do, stop acting like they're idiots. Also, the feelings of teenagers and babies are valid too.

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Feelings are valid, and I never said there aren't, but acting on those feelings on this scale against your own economic interest is kinda stupid and childish. That's my whole point.