This Is the Problem With Democrats

Yet neighborliness doesn’t require me to deplete my bank account to fix my neighbor’s fence. Neighborliness isn’t forcing my neighbor to do the same for my busted septic tank.

What Walz is doing is attaching a positional good—in this case to the issue of climate change but like to a whole lot of other issues as well—to where he stands, then trying to craft rhetoric that makes that positional good sound even better. That’s part of the problem with the whole idea of a positional good in the first place.

If we accept this, however, we can accept any number of other positional goods, and some of them are far less benign.