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Cool trick, do houses and rent next.
That would require having both houses of Congress in favor of spending significant amounts of money. The Republicans control one, so it's not happening this cycle.
the same has been proven true when democrats control the house, the senate, and the presidency.
They actually did a whole lot when they had absolute-minimum majorities in 2020-2021. Just not on spending for housing — a couple of the Democratic Senators were bought off and opposed to it.
as will happen the next time around we get leftists to vote for a center-right establishment candidate, but it's also proven that that requires the far-right establishment candidate to be considerably worse than the center-right establishment candidate that we have now.
i suspect that the democrats are going to lurch further to right if trump wins this election, as the latest polls suggest; making the difference between both establishment candidates harder to discern and, thus, guaranteeing that leftists will continue to have a weak showing on election day due to even more reduced meaningful outreach from either rightist candidate.
That's not the underlying problem — it's that we've got a Senate structured in a way which favors the right-wing parts of the country, and a population which isn't voting for left-of-center candidates with the kind of overwhelming (think 75%) majority that it takes to reshape the country.
most of our houses already run on electricity.
hrmm
They're working on it. Give it a couple years and rent will be an average of $55,000, just like new EVs.