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Ah, see, I'm Canadian so that only works like two months out of the year when we're able to emerge from our igloos...
They could just as easily close ranks with support for Bibi galvanizing over perceived foreign influence in their politics. Nationalism is a powerful narcotic and the US making that move could just pump it into their veins.
Or burned out because they get pulled into every project that's gone off the rails.
Sure, but one disadvantage is they're harder to stack.
Times like this I'm glad I have not one but two friends who are backyard beekeepers. They are more than happy to give away the enormous amount of honey they collect each year...
Gentle heating in a hot water bath or the microwave will liquify that honey again.
All excellent points, and you're right, I really meant "simple", not "easy".
My comment was really intended to highlight the narrowing of the solution space regarding housing. When houses became products and investments, we collectively decided the government had no place in building them aside from indirect nudges: zoning, various forms of incentives, etc.
Maybe it's time we accept that the free market has simply failed and we need to look beyond neoliberal orthodoxy for solutions.
That's not an easy shift! Not at all. But IMO it's a necessary one.
As an aside, it's not like this is new. "It's a Wonderful Life" highlighted this exact problem. Their only mistake is they assumed a benevolent capitalist (George) would come along and fix the problem. But that ain't how the real world works.
This isn't an easy solution. It took us 40 years to get into this mess, and it's going to take a good while to get out of it.
No, there's a very easy solution: the government should build housing the same way they build roads and bridges.
Housing is societal infrastructure. Leaving that entirely to the private sector never made any damn sense.
So let me make sure I understand:
Step 1: DNC highlights the right-wing nutjobs in the GOP as a way to scare the undecides into voting for them. "Look at those nutjobs!" they say. "Aren't they fucking nutty? Who would vote for someone that nutty? Not you. Because that would be really dumb, right?"
Step 2: GOP primary voters decide "Well shit, those nutjobs? Those are my kinda nutjobs!" and nominate Trump.
Step 3: In the general, all those GOP voters then vote for the nutjob.
And thus I am to conclude: Hillary and the DNC helped create the MAGA brownshirts.
Yeah. That makes sense.
It's kinda like how, if I tell a toddler not to put paperclips in wall outlets, and then they do it and electrocute themselves, then really it's my fault because I pointed it out in the first place.
I agree with your premise, but obviously you meant Kevin Riley and just got confused...