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Thanks for this piece, it very much resonates with me. While I am not religious, as a political centrist - I refer to myself as the "Alt Middle" - I very much disdain the left/right bundling of topics as well as when people want to put me in any of the associated "boxes". This is really what attracted me to Strong Towns over a decade ago as they provide a framework for discussing urbanism in this unbundled fashion. In a way I see myself very much as a conservative (with a little c) urbanist because I want to see slow, incremental change albeit with very low friction. I am a member of the Annapolis MD Planning Commission and I see all the time how people who do not want this city to undergo any change, end up getting large dislocative change by trying to fight everything.

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