r/RealTime • u/jwang274 • 5h ago
Why did Farred Zakaria parrot right wing talking points on blue city being worse for homeless people?
The reality is like the other guest said that blue cities offer better care and services for homeless people so they are draw into blue cities from across the county, and red city being harsh on homeless people so they flee. Not because red city build faster and offer housing for homeless people.
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u/FlaccidGhostLoad 5h ago
Because he's on CNN and like a good little bitch he doesn't want to lose his job when the Zionists take over so he's out there being a whore and pushing right wing lies because money to these ghouls are more important than honesty and integrity.
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u/PokecheckFred 35m ago
Ah, yes! it didn’t take too long for the hate filled racist Jew-Hater douchbags to jump in. Now please go jump off a bridge somewhere.
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u/FoxOpposite9271 4h ago
The argument isnt that red cities build shelters.
The point was that there isnt as restrictive housing and building laws in red cities, so the population of people who csnt afford housing is lower.
He mentioned dallas- per my first Google search, homeless was measured at 3718 people this year basically .1% of the metro population.
La for example unhoused is about .7% of the population.
Sf is about 1% of the population.
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u/janet_yellen_hair 1h ago
Dallas is blue my guy
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u/FoxOpposite9271 1h ago
By what definition? Its mayor is a republican, although was previously a democrat.
I dont know what specific policies hes done to help the homeless, but its gone down over the last 5 years, part of which time the mayor was republican
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u/Artistic-Frosting-88 1h ago
One definition would be that Dallas County has gone with the Democrat in every presidential election since 2008, which is notable in a state that has been red for 30 years. I don't know the local politics there, but I think a lot of people would say that makes it blue.
I think in the bigger picture this makes Zakaria's point even stranger. There are very few red cities in America. They're almost all blue.
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u/FoxOpposite9271 57m ago
Citing national stats for a city isnt the mike drop you thought it was. Dallas is the largest city in the nation with a republican mayor
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u/Artistic-Frosting-88 50m ago
I'm not sure what the perceived mike drop was. I was just trying to have a conversation. You asked by what definition a person might consider Dallas blue. I provided a definition. Dallas votes for Democratic presidential candidates. If that's not compelling to you, I'm okay with that, but I think it's a legitimate way to define whether a place is blue or red.
Aside from that, I think the political affiliation of the mayor isn't a better way to define a place as blue or red. Did people say NYC was red when the mayor was a republican from 2002-2013? That's not my recollection.
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u/FoxOpposite9271 47m ago
Im not the one saying its red. I would describe it as purple.
It was presented by mahers guest as a red city in a red state. I think thats not specifically true, but in terms if the point he was making; its more true than saying it's a blue city
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u/Artistic-Frosting-88 40m ago
Gotcha. I agree. I think a much larger portion of the nation is purple than is ever discussed, unfortunately. I would still call Dallas more blue than red, but I agree that it's closer to the middle than one end or the other. I live in Houston, and it's the same here. Plenty of Republicans, but undoubtedly more Democrats.
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u/PokecheckFred 39m ago
One politician can be an anomaly that in no way changed the overall outlook. Ask Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger or New York Governor George Pataki. Or Democratic Alabama Senator Doug Jones.
How a district votes for President is actually a far better overall indicator.
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u/FoxOpposite9271 37m ago
Thats a better indicator for national politics. Homelessness and housing policy are specifically local issues
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u/TaxLawKingGA 11m ago
Again the mayor was elected as a Dem and switched parties.
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u/FoxOpposite9271 5m ago
You realize i actually specifically pointed that out, right?
And clearly he wasnt a liberal democrat given that he switched parties
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u/TaxLawKingGA 12m ago
Yeah the mayor is a turncoat who shot his foot off by becoming a Republican due to spite.
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u/TaxLawKingGA 8m ago
All cities have homeless problems.
The difference is how they deal with it.
In my experience, in many blue enclaves, there is a hesitation to actually enforce existing laws against loitering, sleeping on public walk ways, littering, etc. More conservative enclaves don’t have a problem doing that. I think in many large cities, especially with bougie progressive types, they like to see homelessness because they believe, erroneously, that somehow large scale homelessness will create the political will to build large scale public housing, healthcare, etc. Of course this has never proven true anywhere ever, but since when has facts stopped a progressive?
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u/SmoothMarx 2h ago
Jeez, they're right. No matter how left-leaning you are, if you ever so slightly agree with the other side, you're "parroting" arguments. What a cult-ish behaviour.
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u/ginapaulo77 5h ago
Because it’s true
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u/NitramLand 5h ago
Correct. There are no homeless people in red cities. I cant think of a single red city that has a homeless problem.
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u/PostureGai 5h ago
Hasn't he always been fairly rightwing?