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juicebronston t1_iu78ruf wrote

Empathetic policy isn’t purely emotionally driven, not that you can fully separate emotion from policy anyway.

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mplaz23 t1_iu7c1e7 wrote

I’m not sure either side has had a good policy in 30 years. But I was strictly speaking about voting based on emotions. Not policy. But the same principles do apply.

Feelings are how we’ve justified sending over 50 billion dollars to Ukraine. In my mind it’s just a replacement for Afghanistan & the military industrial complex.

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