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They put a gas lobbyist in charge of the economy and energy. And she now wants to do the whole "Tankrabatt" thing again, which turned out to be a gift for the oil firms the first time around.
That's symbolic for what conservative voters do: Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. Just insanely stupid.
But doing the obviously right thing and build up renewable energies as fast as possible, could be seen as confirmation, that the greens were right. An the path now my led to unrest or fascism, but at least you will never have to admit the greens might be right about renewables and climate change.
What are you talking about? It was a resounding success and it will work exactly as well this time around.
The fossil fuel industry will get sooo much money.
I get the joke, that's why I was referring to the voters as the insane idiots, not the politicians. The politicians are just corrupt liars.
What are you talking about? It was a resounding success and it will work exactly as well this time around.
Hard as it is to believe, conservative voters have an ideology. They want more hierarchy, more exploitation, more oppression, and more cruelty because for them that is stability and justice and order and a winner's due.
People's prosperity is not the point, their own prosperity is not the point, the cruelty is the point. That is why conservative women get abortions and vote to end abortion, that's why conservative people of color vote to let the schools their kids go to be defunded. They would rather get punished and suffer than live in a world where prosperity comes freely.
Sometimes they argue that necessity is the mother of invention, sometimes they argue for a religious necessity for hierarchy, sometimes they talk about it being a cruel world and needing to be ready through practice and preparation, sometimes they find the thought of violence glorious, sometimes they want to subsume their identity into an organization that is powerful.
Whatever the case, the cruelty is the point.