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How does a social progressive respond to the Amish Question, namely that the Amish have a better quality of life according to nearly all objective indicators? (Including but not limited to: lower suicide risk, greater longevity, lower female depression risk, greater sense of purpose, greater community, lower cancer and diabetes risk, negligible drug and alcohol use, lower carbon footprint, and lower income inequality)
They’d probably argue that the aspects of Amish society that work (being out in nature, strong multigenerational families living in close proximity, interactions with friends and neighbors, walking instead of driving everywhere, community responsibility, recycling and reuse instead of buying more stuff that gets dumped in landfill) are progressive goals against the impersonal urban capitalist wage slave nuclear family that they hate.
Amish are far group for libs, they may not like aspects of the trad lifestyle but there are a lot of things they’d at least conversationally agree with.
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