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Aren't Politics Properly Understandable?
We've reconceptualized politics as something. We've invented this moral urgency around the exigencies that you think are absolute imperatives, but the mechanisms of the system do not respond. The stuff that should exist outside of politics should be entirely a political cultural affair and have nothing to do with electoral outcomes. This book is about that. It's also unsustainable in the absence of some kind of elevated moral sense, right? Like they you've got to believe that you're truly doing it for the right reasons. And em you know, again and again what is right to them? I is it? Is is it fight, you know, tand then to use words like equality and