like, a lot of us have very, very good reasons to be living in expensive high cost of living blue metros, and while *I* do Dem Juche all day, I think that if you give these populations nothing at all while counting on our votes it's going to lead to exactly the kind of shit we deal with on here

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I mean, if you force people to move from California and New York and they lose civil rights as they have to move to Georgia and Texas, I'm gonna be real, that kinda does mean that if they then support wacko DSA candidates in the primaries in those states we're getting what we asked for

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the thing I think Stancil is particularly off-base on here is that while he's correct that most Americans live in lower-cost areas, most potentially reachable Democrats more or less definitionally live in higher cost metro areas

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I think downplaying housing costs as a problem is not the right move and is not necessary to combat "vibecession" populism. Sorry, Will, can't agree with you on this one

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what

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