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The US needs to build 2 million houses to revive the American dream of homeownership
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I didn't realize I needed to have a formal policy plan before I opener my mouth. I'll freely admit I don't fully understand the intricacies of how we handle real estate, but the general belief that real estate prices must be protected and they must generally trend upwards is the unhealthy core of the problem. It prioritizes profits over human needs.
Yes.
How we change is somewhat undefined. We've many diverse examples from history. Our side is the ideological underdog. Flexibility and diversity are two of our greatest strengths.
The majority always chooses an authoritarian king, to let another decide for them in convenience in a paradigm as old as humanity. Critical to our collective ideological success is development of individual wisdom, that more individuals choose to learn and reason for themselves.
The core goals originated in FDR's 1944 Second Bill of Economic Rights, a proposed successor to The New Deal. It's been a third party platform for eighty years, including Sanders.
How to pay for it originated in Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address, where he defined and warned of the military-industrial complex. His predictions were in late stages (Reagan's nukes) in twenty five years. In 1990 perhaps the way to pay was to cut defense budget by half by 2000. But, by then the corruption likely ran too deep, as evidenced by the subsequent reckless deregulation of banks by both Democrats and Republicans (partial repeal of Glass-Steagall, Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act).
We're thirty five years past 1990. Banks own everything. Puppet kings are common. And, the Internet may have fundamentally changed communication and relationships so much that we could be past an "event horizon" of our Great Filter event. Belief in such a death perhaps makes it easier to cope with the fight.
I've certainly lost the thread of my purpose. I hope there's something of value for you here.