If your material conditions were your primary concern the president passing an illegal regressive tax should've been a red flag. In my life Bush and Trump started wars while cutting taxes.
To me the dead giveaway is the new deal era coalition. The economy failed so it created an ideology antithetical to conservatism and the results speak for themselves.
2026 is all about cat grooming videos.
As a social experiment we should have a holidays were everyone dresses up as the same race and gender.
Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.
This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.
I look at the problem first and then the second order effects. Otherwise you end up constrained by what other people think. People are irrational and the question is.
As a citizen what do I think property ownership in america should look like and where should the incentives be.
If you can get people to engage with that idea. Then they can think for themselves and there's less room for people to put ideas in their head.
People get too deep into conspiracy theories. Establishment politics is problematic but I think people need to engage with how things actually work.
The rich and powerful are going to petition the government and the government will have some corruption. So the how is important because it informs how we put them back in their box.
I think we need to look at housing as a technology to spread as opposed to an investment to horde. Then do the same thing with utilities.
Tons of reasons not to do it but it makes society less dependent on employment.
I'm trying to eliminate bias.
I'm looking at the whole pool of people who vote without making any assumptions.
The corruption makes staying in power necessary.
I think the real hole in the market is a simple device that could replace the remote control.
I think the root of the problem is a pathological need for social control. Excessive wealth accumulation, sexism, racism.
The piece of information that makes me choose not to engage in this behavior is understanding the value of my own life and by extension the lives of others.
Psychology doesn't consider a lot of this a mental illness because the behavior confers benefits to the person performing them. But if I assume abusing women online is irrational.
Then this is a child development problem.