Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Dems FREAK OUT over DISASTROUS Biden Polls, Jonathan Chait BLAMES The Left" video.

  1. "There's a ratcheting effect moving the country to the right" HA, if only. Culturally speaking, we're just barely starting to get off the slippery slope Leftwards we've been on for ten years now. If you want to say that the Democrats have replaced the Republicans as the party of Big Business and scr**ing over the little guy, you certainly have a case. The difference between Left populism and Right populism, though, is that Left populist solutions have been demonstrated to fail catastrophically because they get too close to communism. Right-populist solutions focus on remaking the circumstances so that individuals can succeed on our own, because ultimately if individuals don't hustle like that, no "system" will save them.
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  2. I think it's a reasonable thing, to structure policies (that we're likely to have anyway) such that regular people with regular jobs can afford regular housing. Insulating regular peoples' rent (or mortgages) against instability due to interest rate fluctuations would be great. If people can't pay rent, rent should go down, and companies can't be on the hook to banks to extract that interest money so they can't respond to falling demand. (Encouraging productivity, including in the oil and gas sector, so that interest rates don't have to be hiked to fight inflation would be ideal.) Deporting tens of millions of migrants who are here in spite of the laws passed by the majority of citizens in this country, would definitely help ease demand, and bring price down. Getting big companies out of single family homes would be great. Reducing barriers to increasing the housing supply would be fantastic. Keeping already built-up cities safe and secure, and structuring trade policies to encourage industry here at home, would help re-industrialize places that already have a good deal of existing housing stock. You can't even give houses away some places, because there are no jobs and the resulting crime has made places unsafe. Bringing jobs back would help basically everyone.
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