Summary
America’s housing crisis is influencing voting patterns, with tough housing markets shifting significantly toward Donald Trump.
An NBC analysis found that counties ranked in the top 10% for home-buying difficulty shifted 4.5 percentage points toward Trump, compared to a 3.1-point national median.
High housing costs in states like Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania turned many counties into political battlegrounds.
Experts argue that financial hardship and skyrocketing housing prices fueled economic discontent, creating a disconnect between Democratic messaging on economic progress and voters’ lived experiences.
Yeah, that’s the thing. There’s the Trumpist Republicans, who are unified and devoted, but then there’s everyone else.
I think the “everyone else” block can be broken down into a three main groups: leftists, progressives, and liberals. And it’s frustrating because people use these terms interchangeably, as though they’re all the same, but they are NOT. Leftists are socialists, of one variety or another. Progressives are social democrats, and Liberals are social liberals and neoliberals, which are center-left and center-right respectively. These three groups do not agree on some key issues, and they do not necessarily like each other.
The neoliberals are going to more closely align with moderate conservatives than social democrats or socialists because they just agree more with moderate conservatives on key issues. The Democratic party is a neoliberals/social liberal party. They are center-left to center-right. Therefore, socialists and social democrats should not look to the Democrats for representation. They don’t agree with you, they don’t necessarily like you, they will not represent you. Unfortunately, the US is a de facto two pay system, so progressives and leftists are essentially without representation, outside of a handful of independents, like Bernie Sanders.
Ftfy, there is no such thing as a good Republican, there was decades of bullshit from them that led us to this point and they’ll be fascist scum after Trump is gone. Anybody who can’t admit that simple truth is either too dumb or too cowardly to be given political power.