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Politics is just a different word for interests, relationships and motivation - the majority of people are not willing to cut their consumption nor support any
by PeterisP 3y ago
Politics is just a different word for interests, relationships and motivation - the majority of people are not willing to cut their consumption nor support any leaders which have policies that will restrict consumption. It's not limited to some small boogeyman faction of "others", it's for mainstream parties across the whole political spectrum, as the position of liberal parties is to talk the talk and take symbolic gestures but even they do not propose anything which would actually make a significant cut to consumption or price in climate costs to fossil fuels, because they aren't stupid and know all too well that even their mainstream voters aren't ready to that and will rather vote for any populist who won't impose such demands.
- wolverine876 3y ago> Politics is just a different word for interests, relationships and motivation That's not true. Politics is the distribution of power; to politicize something is to turn it into a power struggle. People have lots of interests, relationships, and motivations sans power struggles.