I appreciate that response, thanks.
Identity politics is a discussion for another time, because I do see how some more extreme aspects of correcting past imbalances have overshadowed the more moderate and laudable advantages of equal opportunity, though I do think "all" Democrats being tarred with an extremist brush on this score is a GOP creation, and I find referring to Harris as a "DEI hire" (as a few of the cunts who post here have) deeply offensive.
But on the other two issues -- they are nowhere near as easy as "say it, do it" for an enormous variety of reasons. And the immediate reward would be being tarred as "socialist" (if not communist) by the GOP so they, as global solutions, don't work as platform planks anyhow. Dems have tried, without traction though.
With housing in particular -- which is the one world I know a lot about -- roughly two-thirds of Americans are homeowners, and a higher percentage of them than renters vote. And the majority of them don't really want affordable housing solutions because more supply helps drive down the value of their own nest eggs, not to mention adds to a strain of city/county services (which impacts tax rates), adds to traffic, and in some cases, and I quote, "brings in the undesirables."
This was the first election probably since immediately post WW2 where housing became a national campaign agenda item though, to your point. So maybe it and healthcare reform can work as campaign planks against a more traditional GOP opponent, if there ever is one again, and he/she don't co-opt them.
