The Democrats’ War on The Middle Class is WORSE Than You Thought
President Trump Was Right Yet Again
Decades ago, no party would do anything other than to offer their support to the American middle class. The prosperity of the American middle class, which is implicitly linked to home ownership, is the bedrock on which our freedom is built.
Unlike other countries, the biggest landowners in the US are not royals or corporations, let alone the state itself. Taken as a whole, it is the middle class that owns America and it was the middle class that made America great in the first place.
Today, there is one party that will rebuild the middle class and another party that is actively tearing it down.
The Democrats are doing all they can to end the American dream of owning a single family home. In doing so, they have waged war on the middle class.
Ground zero for this anti-American experiment is California. Now that devastating fires have made hundreds homeless, Democrats are seizing the opportunity to remake Southern California into a hellish incubator for one of the worst varieties of communism.
This might seem like an extreme way to categorize Democrat politics, but all you need to do is look at their existing policies to understand why it is an accurate description.
In the 1970s, far-left “academics” developed a theory called “degrowth.” This advocated against economic prosperity, the expansion of industry and the pursuit of science and engineering for the purposes of elevating living standards. If you combine the regression of primitive cultures with the anti-family and anti-individualistic tendencies of communism, you get “degrowth.”
Even before the devastating fires, California’s Democrat politicians have implemented “degrowth” policies. The state’s Democrat controlled regulators have made it all but impossible to build new houses in the state unless you are richer than Croesus. Even renovating or expanding an existing property is next to impossible, even for those who we would normally consider well off.
California has become a horrendously difficult place to do business. As a result companies including Tesla, Chevron, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Palantir, Charles Schwab and SpaceX are just some of the companies that have left the state.
When proposals were made to build water desalination plants in the state, these plans were crushed by the anti-industry California Coastal Commission. That extra water could have really helped the firemen who have found that many hydrants have run completely dry.
Under Governor Gavin Newsom, it has become even more difficult to build a single family home, but easier for asset management firms to fund the building of large scale “project” style dwellings in suburbs. This is nothing short of corporate piracy in the name of ghettoizing formerly safe and pristine suburbs.
Of course, the “degrowth” mafia had one major obstacle in their way for many years. When California was home to the great Governor Ronald Reagan, the construction of new single family homes across thousands of suburbs helped to turn California into the suburban state.
The suburbs that people like Newsom hate could not be rapidly eliminated for the simple reason that too many of them were already there and most families did not want to sell out their communities. But now that fires have destroyed many suburban style communities, the Democrats have an opportunity of a lifetime.
As I explained in my piece from yesterday, many of the families who lost their homes to the fires are at risk of being priced out of their land if they rebuild. As I wrote,
While California is THE high tax/high regulation state, in 1978, Reagan Republicans passed Proposition 13. This law has protected longtime homeowners from unaffordable increases in property taxes. This has prevented controversial Illinois style property taxes from becoming the norm in California. The Democrats hate it, but long time homeowners need these protections.
However, when a home has to be entirely rebuilt, many homeowners will face the prospect of a property tax reassessment that could make living in rebuilt homes totally unaffordable.
Although (weak) laws are in place to allow some victims of the fire to maintain their Prop 13 protections, this will only apply if a new home is rebuilt in a similar manner to the one that was burned down.
The devil is in the details. Today's building codes in California are much stricter than they have ever been. This makes the value of new construction exponentially higher than that of an older home, irrespective of location. This is how California's labyrinth of regulations could price hundreds of families out of the home they already lost!
As a result, Newsom’s piratical buddies may well attempt to leverage this to make devastated families an offer they cannot refuse: “Sell us your land and we’ll build our ghettoized monstrosities where your suburban communities once thrived.”
When looking at the before and after pictures of the beautiful suburbs destroyed by fire in Los Angeles, you ought to look at other images that paint an ominous picture of the future the Democrats intend not only for California, but for all of the United States.
I encourage you to look up images of communist apartment blocks from the old eastern bloc. Behold the grim rat traps that pass for “homes” in these places. Contrast that with the homes that comprise the great American suburb, the natural habitat of our dying middle class.
Then look for videos and articles by so-called “urban planners.” I have done so and the results are shocking. The entire “urban planner” profession is filled with weak minded individuals who loathe the suburb and detest the quiet cul-de-sac.
Such people extol the virtues of “high density living”, which is just code for communist style apartments. These people do not like the middle class, they do not like families, they do not like the American Dream. They hate it and they hate you.
For many years, President Trump has warned of this. He has vowed to protect your suburbs and your single family homes. A vote for Democrats whether at a local, state or Federal level is a vote to kill off the Middle Class and end the American Dream.
We cannot let this happen. Consider the midterms, which are closer than you think. Whatever you do, vote for MAGA Republicans if you want to avoid degrowth, aka the worst of all varieties of communism.