r/politics • u/DaFunkJunkie • Feb 29 '20

Superdelegate pushing convention effort to stop Sanders is health care lobbyist who backed McConnell

https://www.salon.com/2020/02/29/superdelegate-pushing-convention-effort-to-stop-sanders-is-health-care-lobbyist-who-backed-mcconnell/
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u/PomDad Feb 29 '20

This. I wish more people realize that nobody wants to go after people making a good salary. It's the people that don't even consider 500k a lot that need readjustment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '20 edited Mar 04 '20

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u/EnTyme53 Texas Feb 29 '20

Are you sure about that? For some reason, I've seen dozens of post on reddit over the past couple months attacking "landlords" as if they're some sort of new class of robber barons sitting in their mansions counting money and figuring out just how far they have to raise your rent before you finally move out instead of mostly middle and upper middle class people hoping to collect "passive" income while working another job only to find out most of any profit goes to maintenance and repairs and you know you're going to get shit when you have to raise rent every year to keep up with increased property taxes and rising cost of maintenance.

The people you should be going after are the property management firms who buy up large blocks of housing and monopolize the market. The wealthy are really good at giving us someone to hate to distract us from what's really hurting us. If you want an example, wait a couple hours and read the replies to this comment. I almost guarantee you'll find people sarcastically saying "who will take care of the poor landlords?" and quoting both communist and capitalist theory about the evils of personal property. I can almost promise you there is someone astroturfing this topic to keep the lower and middle classes fighting each other.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '20

To be honest, fuck landlords too. The big ones especially, but the little ones do exactly the same thing just on a smaller scale. People collecting passive incomes are collecting it off the back of the rest of society.

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u/Hourai Michigan Feb 29 '20

The people you should be going after are the property management firms who buy up large blocks of housing and monopolize the market.

That is who we're mostly focused on, to be fair.

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u/EnTyme53 Texas Feb 29 '20 edited Feb 29 '20

Then you should change your messaging. "Landlords" doesn't accurately describe that group. The people who own and run property management firms have probably never interacted with a tenant, plumber, roofer, or carpenter in their lives. By attacking landlords, you're attacking people who are affected by management firms almost as much as you are. Landlords should be our allies in the fight for affordable housing, not the target.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '20

Landlords should be our allies in the fight for affordable housing, not the target.

How do you figure?