[zhengyi13]

>Why are people so allergic to materialism?

At the risk of starting a fight... I would point at America's religious history, and the continuing threads of that today that increasingly see scientific/materialist thought as a direct threat to their ideas of how a society ought to be organized.

[snapcaster]

I mean yeah avoiding materialism in political debates is great for people dominating the material realm. I don't think that's an accident