John Scalzi is not that different than Kevin Drum. He’s a little smarter — doesn’t make enormous and obvious economic mistakes nearly as often. But he’s just hoping, like most centrists, that nothing changes until he dies.
Sure, he’s a Democrat, but he’s a neoliberal. That is the one thing that crosses party lines. And he brings up the mythical Bernie-bros, as all centrists are required to. Bernie-bros are like Bigfoot — many people claim to have seen one and yet when prodded centrists can produce no evidence of their existence.
This is why I believe climate change will be far more devastating than most people now expect. There are tons of de facto denialists like Scalzi, who while “believing” in climate change really hope nothing substantive is done to reverse it as that would mean systemic change (and his house price might drop a little). And he doesn’t want much else to change, either, as it’d be truly inconvenient.
Scalzi is typical, which is why his sf is so boring.
