I lived in the Deep South of the U.S. for some time, and witnessed first hand the horror that is a local government run by radicals (in this case, right wing re

I lived in the Deep South of the U.S. for some time, and witnessed first hand the horror that is a local government run by radicals (in this case, right wing religious nuts). I'm not an idiot. I recognize Ayn Rand's novel Atlast Shrugged for what it is: fantasian philosophy. However, I read it to understand people influenced by it. One tiny part of then novel kind of explains radicals to me. Mystics of Spirit: Right Wing Religious nuts who want to force you to suspend reason to placate their moral world-view by modeling all your actions according to their deity, evene if these actions are, in your mind, considered wrong/evil/etc. Mystics of Muscle: Lefty nuts who want to force you to suspend reason to placate their moral world-view by giving money to others who are quantified by the group as "needing" it the most. "Need" is never straightforward or clear. It is something that, like fashion, shifts over time and often is imagined. In this case, the "need" is for San Francisco to never change, and for people in houses to never have tall buildings block their view, because........ well, they have no real reason that isn't in some way imposing their unquantifiable need above the very quantifiable problem of too much demand and too little supply.