A basic asymmetry between far left and far right is that they fight for different different things at different Maslow levels. Far right fights for recognition at love/belonging/esteem levels, far left for material necessity at physiological/security level.
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Morality is at some level related to actionability. If you can do nothing to address a pain, it is not immoral to do nothing. So not surprising that far right and far left try to move things from actionable to non-actionable in opposite directions.
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The irrational moral panic of the far right at a single socialist winning a primary arguing ‘more can be done for people who need the most’ is good data. You don’t have to be a socialist to be broadly supportive of “more can be done” agendas to push far-right moral panic button
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Anyhow, time to ignore centrist and moderate politics. They’re impotent and almost irrelevant for the next few years. Focus on far left vs far right. The middle is just going to sit there like a lump and rot slowly, while the tails wrestle over the future.
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When I think about how tricky poverty-driven migration is to make policy around, I keep thinking wait til we have massive climate driven migration on top of it

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(Obvs much overlap there but climate change is going to make migration so much more intense I think)
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