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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at overwhelmingly blue cities like Seattle, San Francisco, LA, DC, and others, it's clear Democrats offer nothing but an F U to the middle class, the working class, and everyone under 30 without a trust fund. Democrats will subsidize the very poor with Section 8 vouchers and so on, but they will never do anything that threatens the inflated property values of the professional class that are the base of the Democratic Party. Teachers and firefighters can't raise a family in a blue city. Try getting permits to build a six story residential building in a Democratic community and the NIMBYs with the Hate Has No Home Here yard signs will be out in full force.

It's no wonder young people and the middle class have turned away from the Democratic Party. It's a party for wealthy property owners and no one else. And Democrats are so detached from the real world that they think gender pronouns and insisting Latinos be called LatinX are the pressing issues of the day. The Democratic Party is completely broken. Republicans suck too. But when it comes to kitchen table issues, Democrats are the enemy for the vast majority of Americans. Trump is the only thing that keeps Democrats even remotely viable.[/quote]

That’s not necessarily an indication that YIMBY policies will benefit democrats at the voter booth. If anything that is an indication that high housing prices and restrictive zoning might actually make the electorate more left leaning. Homeowners are more conservative than renters and the data suggest that homeownership might actually make people more conservative voters. Homeowners are significantly more likely to vote Republican than renters in 47 states. I’m very worried that this ivory tower political messaging will make homeowners more likely to vote republican and give the opposition another winning campaign message. https://fortune.com/2024/03/16/homeowners-red-renters-blue-broken-housing-market-polarized-political-culture/
Many people will be very motivated to vote if they think democrats want to destroy their neighborhood and take away local control over land use decisions. Republicans will call it woke social engineering and say that democrats want Washington to take control over your community. The messaging about democrats bringing crime and destroying single family neighborhoods will be political gold. [/quote]

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