Seriously, I don't think you can understand the present moment without recognizing that huge numbers of people, especially older people, just flat out refuse to change their minds in the face of evidence or moral issues and are willing to lose elections, kill democracy, and destroy the planet so they don't have to change or deal with it in any way.
Upon finding out 99% of NYU protesters were indeed students, Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino decided they all have to die.
It feels like Democrats should stop helping these people in their war on students and higher education?
People keep mistaking the "debate" over trans rights as a niche issue when it's the evangelical right negotiating with the well-to-do center-right over how severely they're going to collectively oppress women, kids, queer, and gender nonconforming people. That's why it's all over prestigious elite media like the New York Times. And it's not looking good at this point, folks.
"We're not building enough housing; that's why prices are up."
That's true to some extent but that's not why prices skyrocketed recently. We haven't been adding hundreds of millions of people each year. This has been an ongoing problem for decades.
It's price gouging and investors intentionally pushing a market bubble as high as possible.
"They functioned executively down the stairs." LOL.
Makes me wonder how my writing comes across. I imagine the "American author raised on British media" comes across pretty strongly.