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I'm struck that we as a people mostly seem to want this.

The steps to depolarization involve stepping back. Turning the other cheek. Letting things roll off our back.

But we can't be unpolarized if we flip shit in our rhetoric all the time. But there's money to be made there, and a certain kind fo joy we take in it. After all, this place used to no even allow it, but we just wanted to fire off our loud takes so much, eventually, the place changed.

This too is a question that I’ve kind of been pondering in the midst of the millions great resignation think piece.

I assume there is a great contraction of spending somewhere? Maybe in the rent space? One thing I have found very interesting in American society is how living on one’s own is treated as a necessity rather than luxury, or at least it was until a couple of recessions ago.

Now the answer to both situations may simply be "the market," but I'll ask it anyway......why isn't there decent, cheap housing and why isn't there financing for inexpensive cars?

These projects almost always face a ton of blowback from the surrounding owners, which makes them difficult to get done. NIMBY. It's not impossible, but it's not easy.

And we're supposed to pretend we don't know which party started exploiting this first.....

Why can’t they sit in a room and compromise on a plan to improve elections that both protects right to vote, and preserves election integrity. Hell- there are people in this forum that could do it if given the opportunity. 

Because the true goal of the left is not to protect the right to vote but to defeat the Republicans and to do that they need 2 am ballet dumps, voter harvesting and a multitude of other fraudulent operations and they need to get election procedures out of the state's hands and into federal hands

why is everything a strict party line vote? Why can’t they design a policy on immigration that makes sense enough to be voted on by large members of both sides?

Nope again because the actual goal of the left is to import as many immigrants as possible who are needy and dependent to increase the dem vote.  Why all of a sudden are they allowing non citizens to vote in several areas.
This wouldnt be happening if these folks voted Republican

Well, I think it's twofold.

Your house, for most people in this country, is the biggest financial decision you'll ever make that doesn't include marriage or children. Not only is it massive from a financial sense, but it's also emotional. It's about choosing who you are, where you want to be, and what sort of community you want to live in. You put down roots, you have kids (who go to school), you become a part of that community.

• When outside forces like "zoning boards" try to make changes and that means the very nature of your community might change, you can't simply decouple the emotional aspects. It's your life. Do you want to blow up friendships, do you want to force your kids into new schools in a new community, do you want to uproot exactly what you've built? No.
• When those same forces do something that will negatively affect the financial value of your asset, and you can exert political pressure to support the financial value, it's basically a no-brainer to exert that pressure to preserve it. If not only does the actions of a zoning board mean that your community will change and make you want to sell your house and move somewhere else, if the actions of that zoning board means that you're not going to get for your house what it was worth before they made their decision, you're gonna fight like hell.

NIMBY is a lot of things, but irrational isn't one of them.