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[feotakahari]

In the US, austerity economics is associated with the right. It’s the left who say you can spend your way out of having less money. The right says you need to conserve resources, or you’ll run out completely.

So why is the right allied with people who think it’s heresy to say that God won’t give us more oil when we run out?

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[wingedcatgirl]

Cynical off-the-cuff answer: Because the people who say that are rich, and the right believes that being rich is correlated with also being X, for all desirable values of X. (In this case, "smarter than normal people, such that if they say things that sound weird I should believe them anyway".)

[yvannairie]

Because it's never about "conserving" resources -- it's about the wrong people spending them. The RIGHT people can MOST DEFINITELY spend their way into more money.