It's fine. One of my best friends in politics was an organizer at Evolve, in actually a monthly donor. I desperately want to repeal the whole thing but split-roll might be our best option considering the realtors are trying to EXPAND it rn
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It's our best shot at replacing federal housing funding and doing true value capture near transit upzoning.
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It was also a tax revolt that kicked off an era of neoliberalism where the state funding mass social needs was hampered in a truly catastrophic way we are still suffering from
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corey robin calls the entire project of american neoliberalism "the prop 13 order" insofar as it's the direct intellectual antecedent to the anti-government political order ushered in by reagan
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Replying to @peterjgowan @yeltb and
That's who I was thinking of when I said that heh
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Replying to @uhshanti @peterjgowan and
Reagan made the UC system not free because his adviser (later Nixon's) said "an educated proletariat could be explosive"
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
You know that his dad was bailed out by WPA programs right?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peterjgowan and
yeah and he used to be a union guy himself, albeit aggressively conservative... anyway the quote is buried in a 1970 Chron article, but here it ishttps://medium.com/@EuroYankeeBlog/in-1970-roger-freeman-a-hoover-institution-economist-and-a-key-educational-adviser-to-nixon-then-fea974f50c17 …
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
someone in DSA was reading a book with the quote in it last year but I can't find that tweet rn
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yeah I wanna find the original citation
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peterjgowan and
"Professor Sees Peril in Education,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 October 1970. idk if the Chron digitized it though
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