oh he really *did* follow Bernie Sanders' ideas.

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No; this is a unique and exciting one, unrelated to Will's previous argument re:lotteries.

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People are particularly attached to the idea that war is orchestrated by shadowy elites imposing it on unwitting teenagers & are uncomfortable with the reality that Russia’s army is mostly 30-something contract killers

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Part of it is people who secretly sympathize with Russia but know they'll get yelled at for saying it so they say things like how it's the height of inhumanity for a Ukrainian to shoot a Russian with a gun in a war

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One of the most debilitating habits of mind in progressive spaces is to imagine the most hard-scrabble, scraping-by, low-income family you can, and then imagine that that family is the TYPICAL family, and their experiences are what drives public opinion. Happily those families are a small minority!

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