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"How Progressives Froze the American Dream" Yeah, if you're gonna lead with that sort of blatant victim-blaming, then I'd expect a coherent explanation of one'
by yellowapple 2y ago
"How Progressives Froze the American Dream"
Yeah, if you're gonna lead with that sort of blatant victim-blaming, then I'd expect a coherent explanation of one's reasoning in the very first paragraph.
It ain't progressives who are gouging renters. It ain't progressives who are jacking up food prices. It ain't progressives who are buying up entire neighborhoods as investments. It ain't progressives who are jacking up medical costs, and it ain't progressives who are denying insurance coverage for said costs.
- alwa 2y agoI felt that the headline was poorly chosen. He’s digging much further back—to the second half of the 19th century, when apparently 30% of Americans would move house in any given year. The “progressives” in this equation were those of decades ago—although he does trace a line through to the modern state of affairs—but the headline feels like a poor editorial choice. It’s a serious and considered piece of research, opinionated but not as combustible as the headline suggests.