The answer is, NIMBYism succeeds due to its participants being treated *by institutions like political parties and media outlets* as people of special status who receive unlimited grace and always have a valid viewpoint. Grace and validation are hard-to-come-by otherwise. An immense double-standard

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Going to be incredible how many things "we can't afford" when Democrats control the purse again.

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yeah, one of the imho clear lessons of the obama/trump back-to-back is that political charisma can come from anywhere and that you dismiss politicians that connect with people at your peril www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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it cuts two ways— first, life isn’t school, there’s no presumed authority who rewards intelligence or grants status for correctness. second, everyone’s dumb, including ourselves, don’t delude yourself into a position you can’t hold anyways.

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Democrats recruiting bland upper-class centrist veterans for swing districts at the expense of every other kind of candidate is a strategy that mostly has downsides but one key upside is those people all think Hegseth is the antichrist and want to be on the team of impeachment managers at his trial.

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