I'd argue the entire system is built so that your house is your primary financial asset, and your value is often measured by the size of your yard. It's not individual racism and classism, it is systemic and cultural.
I'd argue the entire system is built so that your house is your primary financial asset, and your value is often measured by the size of your yard. It's not individual racism and classism, it is systemic and cultural.
This is it. No pension and social security under attack as long as anyone can remember means you need to preserve that one asset…if you can get one. And attacking anything that them think threatens it — density, public transit — makes people act crazy.