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Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

inthesetimes.com Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless
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  • The truth is even more nefarious. BOTH parties are at war with the homeless.

    Which right wingers run Portland, Boston, and LA? They’re arresting homeless people in Portland, Boston, and LA too you know?

    Can we finally admit that we have two right wing parties or do we need to be in prison camps with a gay minority president before people will finally start looking past identity politics?

    • She does discuss this in the article, while explaining why it's still a war from the right.

      • That’s good. I’ll actually read it now. Thanks for the heads up. I’m so used to identity politics on here that I just expected they were engaging in it since it’s the default here.

        It’s certainly the default from articles you post.

  • The Cicero Institute also advocates legislation allowing new private prisons to enter the market and empowering governors to circumvent elected attorneys general by appointing ​“special prosecutors” to combat ​“public lawlessness.”

    And there we have the actual key to all of this.

    The goal is to reinstitute Victorian workhouses, updated for the modern age of private prisons and officially-sanctioned slave labor.

    That's it - nothing more. It's not even an attempt at anything like an actual solution to the growing problem of homelessness - it's only and entirely that wealthy psychopaths like Lonsdale see homeless people as a resource that's not currently being exploited and that they want to exploit. Entirely in order to further their own wealth and privilege, they want to imprison these human beings and make them into slaves.

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