President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that he wants to 'drive housing prices up' to keep homeowners 'wealthy' rather than focusing on affordability to benefit people people who 'didn't work very hard'
Go ahead, vote MAGA in the midterms if you’re curious how fucked your life can get.
It’s really not. The affordability crisis is one of the reasons you’re seeing the unraveling of America to begin with. Americans (myself included), like most other people, are stupid, emotionally driven creatures. They can’t buy a house or afford groceries so they elect a strongman who’s going to get rid of the “other”, because obviously it’s their fault. This is not a uniquely American phenomenon, but in typical American fashion, we’re being pretty extravagant about it. BoJo in the UK, the AfD, Marine Le Pen, it’s a very familiar story and it’s for the same reasons every time. Hitlers rise to power was in part due to a failing economy. The average person legitimately does not understand the factors that give rise to their social and economic situation and is easily manipulated by those with power and money. It may look “acceptable” to us from the outside because we’re not tackling the root of the issue, but most people think they are, they just haven’t actually identified the root issue. People stormed the capital in part because of affordability, they clearly want to do something, they are just too ignorant to understand. Also racism, but that’s a whole different conversation.
It’s really not. The affordability crisis is one of the reasons you’re seeing the unraveling of America to begin with. Americans (myself included), like most other people, are stupid, emotionally driven creatures. They can’t buy a house or afford groceries so they elect a strongman who’s going to get rid of the “other”, because obviously it’s their fault. This is not a uniquely American phenomenon, but in typical American fashion, we’re being pretty extravagant about it. BoJo in the UK, the AfD, Marine Le Pen, it’s a very familiar story and it’s for the same reasons every time. Hitlers rise to power was in part due to a failing economy. The average person legitimately does not understand the factors that give rise to their social and economic situation and is easily manipulated by those with power and money. It may look “acceptable” to us from the outside because we’re not tackling the root of the issue, but most people think they are, they just haven’t actually identified the root issue. People stormed the capital in part because of affordability, they clearly want to do something, they are just too ignorant to understand. Also racism, but that’s a whole different conversation.