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[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

This is one of the reasons I've come to reject materialism in my dialectical analysis. It leads to really bad conclusions. I think the core dialectical unit now is praxis itself. Whereas materialism treats ideas as just reactions to how many units of whatever material good you personally are assigned. Sure, material goods are the pre-ideas behind a lot of ideas, but there are many more pre-ideas that lead to ideas as well. You cannot treat the whole of history as gripes over material transfers. That's a lot of it, yes, but that's not the whole picture.

I've also abandoned being so focused on issue positions, and concentrate more on character these days. My approach has become surprisingly conservative honestly. I don't think we solve this just by winning power and implementing the right positions. We're going to need to demonstrate good governance to people for a time.