I'm with you on the need for LFTRs.
Why does Gates spend so much of his fortune on nuclear, rather than LFTRs? All he needs is a small course correction. It's not as if he needs to give up his leftist ideas. LFTRs is an easy solution for all stripes.
You're assuming his ideas are what you think they are. Again, every aspect of what we see from the left is a facade to mask the actual agenda, which is to get rid of 90% of humanity and enslave the rest. It's the Malthusian Fallacy, which has existed for 200+ years.
The false premise is simple. There's not enough for everyone. There are too many people. The only solution is drastic reduction of the global population. We can't just murder everyone (at least right away) so here's what we do:
Beyond that we have:
This agenda completely explains everything you see that "doesn't make sense". Does it advance the Malthusian agenda? Then support it. If it does not, then oppose and denigrate it, especially among the young, who are the easiest to manipulate.