>>2347574Basically because universal values don't really exist, even if it's in human nature (as far as we know) and helpful in the long term.
This is not to say that there can't be agreements betwixt opposing powers, or SOMETHING universal amoungest people, but that would, at least now, be limited to the very minimalistic sense of a nation require education to improve economic and ecological conditions with something like complex empathy being a byproduct of this, rather than being uniting itself
The same can be said for liberty, honor, diginity, culture, rationality, almost any human right.
This is why the actual left is so focused on permablitzing, gun ownership, and the natural sciences, as these are all relevant to material conditions, specifically, in becoming independent of the state, and later, making the state too expensive to run; the demsocs are, by contrast, gushing vaginal fluid over some liberal mayor in new york who happens to support some nationalization.
So you can autist an organization's or politicians history, waiting for the one great trailblazer, or you can accept the premise that anyone grazing the state will be completely hypocritical and incoherent, under a veneer of hyperreal opposition, as is the nature of politics. The latter doesn't mean empathy is any less important, but that the optics which empathy is sometimes used for is already broken and what's left is manipulation.
On a somewhat related note, permaculture seems to be much more easy than one would think, in terms of labor, energy and land, with it only taking 1/15th to 1/30th of an acre, and comparable to the US food industry as a whole, in terms of necessary labor time, so capitalism is on shaky ground anyway:
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