In my experience, a lot of these politics are purely performative. Politicians get elected on the promise of ‘reducing regulations’ to ‘release the economy’, without any connection to reality. In office they than have to do something that looks like the thing they fought for. We’ve seen the same after Brexit. The ‘bad and idiotic’ EU regulations were dropped and untreated sewage was let into the sea.

That was the ending to the episode where they have to give up the town because of all the garbage and pollution, and just move Springfield a few miles to a new place. But this doesn’t feel like it’s this. I just can’t put my finger on it…

Principal Skinner and Miss Krababel where in the closet together. And he had a thousand hands, like Vishnu. And they were all busy.

That’s why the dwarfs where helping him with his decision.