Because a person posts something in a chat room doesn't necessarily mean that they accept it at face value. I do happen to like Kunstler's writings and do find his stuff thought provoking even if I don't always agree with what he happens to be a floppn' his gums about.

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Because this class is dangerously insecure and perversely needs to insist on being right about its guiding dogmas and shibboleths at all costs. That is why so much of the behavior emanating from the thinking class amounts to virtue signaling — we are the good people on the side of what’s right, really we are! Of course, virtue signaling is just the new term for self-righteousness.

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It does sound like something either side can use and, alas, do so accurately.

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finger wagging right

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Over the years I've become quite an authority on the finger wagging left. LOL