Comment by janalsncm
2 days ago
It’s all relative. Last week I found out that building housing was considered a right wing idea. Apparently supply side progressivism is right wing in some circles.
2 days ago
It’s all relative. Last week I found out that building housing was considered a right wing idea. Apparently supply side progressivism is right wing in some circles.
Context matters: what housing?
The idea to increase supply to push costs down so that regular people like teachers and waiters and nurses can afford to live in the city.
Of course this will induce demand as well, so it’s nonlinear. But the point is, it’s not a right wing idea.
Since the French Revolution, "right wing" by and large means a politics that defends or expands the established ruling order.
In so far as the established ruling order is so-called free market capitalism, as is the case in the US, I have to agree that your political interests are right-wing aligned.
That said, Americans have somehow redefined and reduced all political vocabulary to absolute nonsense, so I can see why you wouldn't understand this.