Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion" video.

  1. As a Washingtonian, and a Dem, I see a lot of this happening. In Tacoma where I live, a city that's been an industrial city for years, even has a good chunk of its populace also military, and yet, I see plenty of this nimbyism happening here. I live in a quintessential working class neighborhood, still intact for the most part and I'd love it to stay that way, but something I read recently is the cost of construction is part of the problem why housing is so expensive, you can't build for the low income, due to the general cost of materials - add to that the fact that housing here is often hard to find, with many houses now having multiple offers, selling for way over list price as a result. Upzoning is one avenue the city is looking at to solve this problem, but I don't think that'll solve much, if anything, and yes, the homeless are rife here. By the same token, I think part of the problem is, getting the rich to pay more taxes, and to raise the overall wages as now you can't even live on 20K/year anymore, and yet many are expected to do so. I think if that were dealt with, a lot of the housing issues will solve itself. Now, I do think the Dem's need to not listen to the overtly progressive young dems, and reign them in, but by the same token we also need to redo the republicans as they are so corrupt as to be in bed with the right. I find too many young people are too "woke" for their own good, with defunding the police etc happening, along with sentitivities to people's feelings as to not offend. That is one reason we see many use him/his/etc in their signatures in emails, or simply listing non binary pals. I'm not a fan of Jay Inslee, we've had way better Governors than him, though he is not the worst. It's sad that our state is like this, and Tacoma is loosing sight of being a great place to live with rising crime due to what seems to be a lot of police inaction now. I consider myself a Dem, but a centrist, and I suspect many of us are, and are now caught in the middle of this tug of war, and Covid is not helping things.
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