And I think if you watch, it becomes clear that actually, a lot of the things they are arguing for, they are doing it because it's the right and moral thing to think, not because they have seriously thought through the advantages and disadvantages.
And that's a problem. They look at these questions - say how to deal with refugees, or whether it's a good idea to nationalize certain services, or whether we should push electric cars - and to them it is a black and white moral issue. Good people accept refugees, nationalize x y and z, or make combustion engines illegal.
Yet as someone who is generally pro nationalization, who thinks a robust mechanism to deal with refugees is important, who thinks climate change is an existential issue - I know that there are problems and repercussions to any policy decisions.
The stupid fuckwits in my country have just passed a bill that will potentially criminalize therapists talking about the fact of their physical bodies being male or female with kids. Because it was the nice, right thing to do. No thoughts given to repercussions, that stuff, they say, will work itself out.
That kind of thinking is not going to produce good policy except by accident.