it seems like the democrats want to frame everything in terms of morality nowadays, regardless of what it is, and it just makes them look dumb when they do it.

climate change, debt forgiveness, healthcare...there's all these great arguments to use, but democrats want to throw them all away and reframe everything in these lowest common denominator religious terms.

so, universal healthcare isn't the most efficient way to deliver healthcare. rather, healthcare is a human right! meh. i'd rather talk about efficiency...

climate change has become a religious conviction, rather than an empirical issue. and, debt forgiveness is a religious debate about usury, rather than a question of deadweight loss on the economy.

how does an educated person interface with all of this nonsense? i'm looking for a smart candidate with smart policies, and even the supposed "right side" of the debate just wants to frame everything in these backwards terms.

is the problem in america too deep to really resolve? is the culture fundamentally unsalvageable? i wonder, sometimes.

the democrats repeatedly remind me that they are actually the conservative party, and the idea of framing debt as a moral issue is just another reminder of it. as a leftist, that strikes me as crazy talk. but, the other option is the nihilists in the republican party. and, when the spectrum is conservative v nihilist, rather than left v right, everything gets very weird....