Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols

I met someone yesterday who was treating politicians like favorite bands. (AOC is so 2018 and Summer Lee is mainsteam? Oh... and you're from out west? ORLY?)

I asked them if they'd heard of the Italian five star movement[1], and if they'd considered merging the very good idea that politics should not be a career with less wackadoo euroskeptic.

(The EU might have issues, but I assure you using a shared currency rather than relying on credit or debit card companies is cool and good, dear reader.)

Then again, this was not someone born in my state. The ultimate luxury belief is the idea you can show up in another place only by virtue of the neoliberal world order you claim to hate, express extreme opinions that remove from power those who know the people who have been here for many generations, knowing that you and your "partner" (in the romantic sense or "I'm from a city with a now closed RU embassy" sense) and not be responsible for the damage wrought.

Anyways, back to my cortado, thanks for the link OP.

(I upvoted you -- apologies if this comment is unwelcome, I'm still learning the written and unwritten rules of HN.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Star_Movement#European_af...