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While I was not of voting age in the early 2000s, I remember the rhetoric of the neocons. "They hate us because of our freedoms! We have to fight them over there so they do not attack us over here!"

When I examine every neocon still around, I find their only pillar of their supposed "conservative" values are building a strong military. Reduce spending and uphold traditional values? Those come last (if at all) when compared to sending soldiers to die in Israel's interests.

Fuck neocons.

I would prefer we not go to war with Iran, but when did any of the preferences of myself or any of the citizens of the United States matter to those in power? I would hate to be someone who enlisted recently in the military, as they have legitimate chances of being deployed. That most likely will not cause a big shake up.

What would cause that is if our government is stupid enough to start a draft for this war. The young fighting age men just might fight an enemy closer to home than Iran.

If we have WWIII in the near future with the talk of "Iran is close to having nukes" (again), I bet that all the talking heads shilling for globohomo will equate Iran to Italy, as it is the "weak link" of the alliance of Russia-China-Iran.

But with all the poor handling of the American hegemonic empire, I don't think "the good guys" (the USA and its allies) will be winning. In fact, those writing the history later may be labeling the other side as "the good guys."

We shall see.

We are going to need to see housing prices be allowed to drop majorly for a proper rebalance to occur. I think the Boomers can manage to not sell their house at quite the inflated rate that many of them are doing. They should have more to their nest egg than their house. And if not then that is their problem.

We should have already been restricting immigration, but that is "racist" according to our traitorous politicians. That would also alleviate housing demand.

Less crazy than this example is the median cost of houses going up from 143k in 1997 to 414k in 2025. This is still a major increase, since the price of a house tripled while incomes most certainly have not.

I have to wonder how many housing market issues are more of an isolated issue in major urban areas rather than universally true across the board, but I have seen housing prices higher in rural areas as well to a lesser extent, so it is effecting everyone to some extent.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/nearly-30-year-old-capital-gains-tax-exemption-rules-blamed-for-us-housing-shortage-5869376

I get trying to fix problems by removing bad taxes and red tape, but I don't think this will go far enough. The bigger problem is when older people who bought their home 30 years ago for 100k are trying to sell their house (supposedly) now worth 4 million without thinking about how it possibly makes sense to be selling at such a markup. Or am I to believe the house is really worth 40 times more than it was 30 years ago?

One common example of this is women with their dating expectations. "He should make 500k a year, be at least 6 feet, good looking, and accept me as I as a single mom with 3 kids."

It is simply a sign of stupidity to not be able to have and accept a realistic assessment of what you should be able to attain, not live in delusion.

How many people have you come across that have unrealistic expectations? And how many of those people with unrealistic expectations have low intelligence?

It seems obvious when I mention it, but I think it is a missing piece in the discussion of those who have unrealistic expectations. They are stupid, plain and simple.