I wish I could feel sympathy, but I don't. The Reagan generation did this to themselves, and the rest of us have to suffer with them.

  • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Not that I blame you, OP - it is poetic compared to other waves of housing exclusion - but I do feel bad for them. Besides the chill boomers that are going to be part of that statistic, I can’t really blame the US people for how the US is. Our political machine creates the public sentiment that it needs to run smoothly most of the time, and it rejects public sentiment on the rare occasion that public sentiment opposes its goals

    I just see yet more people being forced, completely unnecessarily, to live without housing. And as people so often do in this god-forsaken place, a lot of those people suck tremendously on a personal level

    • pooh [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      Our political machine creates the public sentiment that it needs to run smoothly most of the time, and it rejects public sentiment on the rare occasion that public sentiment opposes its goals

      Reminds me of my favorite Albert Einstein quote:

      Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.