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Blue states filled with people who claim to be liberal generally support restrictive zoning and housing policies that make housing impossible for the poor and lower middle class to afford. Looking around the country it's generally "blue" areas that have the least affordable housing with very few exceptions.
Hypocrisy is pretty universal. Most people vote based on superficial affinity signaling, not any understanding of actual policies or their implications. The present political situation is what you get when people vote based on who they'd like to have a beer with, not whose ideas they support (or even understand).
> Not OP. It's more like they're willfully choosing to suffer. So in that case, enjoy your misery!
They're not "willfully choosing to suffer." They're actually starting co-ops but choosing not to call them by that word. The OP just decided to be needlessly judgemental over that, and lead us down into this stupid, prejudiced subthread.
> It's more like they're willfully choosing to suffer. So in that case, enjoy your misery!
So, you're going to speculatively stereotype an entire group of people and condemn them based on your own hunch as to their politics and station in life.
While you're certainly entitled to an opinion, nothing about your entitlement precludes that opinion being a bigoted one.
What a bigoted existence.
> Yea I am stereotyping people based on my personal experience and what the author echos in the article. I’m in the Deep South and the article spoke about Illinois. Pretty far away but also the same mindsets.
Ah yes, the classically conservative Illinois which shares so much in common with the Deep South.
dang|6 years ago
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magashna|6 years ago
dang|6 years ago
api|6 years ago
Hypocrisy is pretty universal. Most people vote based on superficial affinity signaling, not any understanding of actual policies or their implications. The present political situation is what you get when people vote based on who they'd like to have a beer with, not whose ideas they support (or even understand).
refurb|6 years ago
https://socialsecurityworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/N...
mieseratte|6 years ago
You're assuming in a "Red State," all those using social programs are the same ones screaming "Socialism!"
This entire premise is based on your stereotype of one's politics.
Perhaps you need to step back and re-examine your assertion.
> Or based on what the politicians elected by those states say and then vote for. "Vote the most against"...
You're stereotyping entire states and condemning the value of the people therein based on your ghostly spector of a Red State politician.
Yours is a stereotyped, bigoted position.
wil421|6 years ago
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dang|6 years ago
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CharlesColeman|6 years ago
They're not "willfully choosing to suffer." They're actually starting co-ops but choosing not to call them by that word. The OP just decided to be needlessly judgemental over that, and lead us down into this stupid, prejudiced subthread.
mieseratte|6 years ago
So, you're going to speculatively stereotype an entire group of people and condemn them based on your own hunch as to their politics and station in life.
While you're certainly entitled to an opinion, nothing about your entitlement precludes that opinion being a bigoted one.
What a bigoted existence.
> Yea I am stereotyping people based on my personal experience and what the author echos in the article. I’m in the Deep South and the article spoke about Illinois. Pretty far away but also the same mindsets.
Ah yes, the classically conservative Illinois which shares so much in common with the Deep South.