127 sats \ 28 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Aug \ on: Kamala's Housing Plan Will Make Housing Even More Expensive econ
Remember: not even in the most merciless and inhumane dictatorships public opinion ceases to be the major leading force. Stalin himself refrained from many actions just to avoid negative impact in public opinion, and took others just for the sake of getting positive public opinion.
That means that this kind of public stances are taken only and if only a big enough percentile of the population already agrees, and if most part the voters they already have remain either indifferent or accept it as a trade-off for the sake of other things they consider more important.
That leads us to the sad core source of the problem which is much, much worse than Kamala saying this, but the reason why she says it: enough people already believe this so to make it politically profitable to offer it.
It will take decades to reverse this cultural problem. We hope Argentina will serve as an example in the long term.
at least 33% of voters like policies such as price control and housing subsidies
They believe housing is a "right"/entitlement
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Talking to only above 10% of the entire voter-base is enough to make a speech politically profitable. 33% makes it mandatory. Kamala is going to win big time, no rigging needed.
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Kamala cannot win without rigging especially in Pennsylvania where fracking is a big industry
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She is a woman, that assures her 50% of the voter-base right away. She needs only one more vote, and there's plenty. She looks either black or latina depending on the angle. And there are too many soyboys buying socialist shit. Not only she will win but it will do so by landslide. She can easily reach 60%
Ask any woman you know what other womans plan to vote. You will find almost 100% fidelity towards Kamala. It's so bad that all major libertarian woman on X are slamming the 19th Amendment. That speaks volumes on how serious the issue is.
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Trump has won with married women in both of his campaigns. Kamala will dominate with unmarried women, though.
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Trump didn't had a woman in from of him prior. The recent economic crisis must have negatively impacted the rate of new couples forming due to economic constraints to form a family, plus all the new generation of woman indoctrinated in woke ideology and still unmarried. And we are not counting democrat couples. It's to much weight on favour of Kamala.
I'm of course not talking about what I want to happen but about what I calculate will happen. Numbers are on favour of Kamala. It's terrifying.
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You know that the only election he's ever won was against a woman right?
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Hilary was old, it doesn't count, it was like having biden in front of him. That points to the other positive on Kamala's side: she's much younger. A young, "black/latina" woman. Game over.
She has to pretend to be a moderate. Will voters believe her transformation?
Most importantly will voters in Pennsylvania believe her when she says she will not ban fracking
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Do not underestimate people' stupidity. The same thing happened here: in 2019 the same party that always did the wrong thing promised to not to do it "this time" and people was so disappointed with our "Trump" (Macri) that they wanted to believe it. And that's a rock-solid psychological force at play: if there's the slightest reason for people in Pennsylvania to not to vote Trump, they will be unavoidably biased to be willing to believe Kamala, actively forcing aside rational thought. I confidently predict people will believe Kamala, not out of rationale, but because they want to do so. They desperately want it to be true. That's an immovable psychological force in a context of despair, specially in a country strongly educated in the concept of faith.
If women didn’t vote, the world would be a better place
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I think it's strongly cultural. Here in Argentina Milei haves nearly unanimous support from teenage girls and up. He only starts to reach 50%-50% once the 30 year-old mark is passed, and he is despised by older women unanimously. But that's an absolute win, the loyalty of the youth is assured. I would say our experience was balanced. Younger girls were determinant in assuring Milei's victory, but older women almost send us straight into the socialist abyss. I'm confident this new generation of girls will underpin a new tendency among women.
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