It's because our society, possibly due to influence from Christianity, believes that the strongest and most laudable person is the prodigal son who did evil and then chose to turn back to good, as the ultimate demonstration of your moral worth.https://twitter.com/Itmechr3/status/1369510538464616451 …
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It is never a good idea to use someone's current sudden, shocking, exogenous tragedy as a stepping stone for making bigger changes People get incredibly pissed if you do that The whole "crisis = disaster + opportunity' thing is a really bad idea irl
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It was always the case that the best plan for radical change was people feeling comfortable and secure and making choices that they saw as generosity out of plenty The idea that a shock to the system where they're suddenly scared and suffering would *help* was a pipe dream
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One of the reasons I think the American left was filled with such despair is we've got a historically unusual degree of awareness of how, say, Europe does it (but not all the problems of European politics or the vast spans of time achieving the European social net took)
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