Hi, I'm Johnny Harris, one of the producers for this Opinion Video. I've always wondered why famously liberal states like California and Washington struggled to advance progressive policies, so I teamed up with NYT Editorial Board member Binya Appelbaum to get some answers. I'd love to know what most surprised you most in this video, or answer any questions you may have about how we made it - leave your comments below.
How realistic is the reality where state officials could leverage tax revenue etc. into financing solutions out of these crisis without economic backlash and perhaps other issues?
As a resident growing up in California in Orange County - notoriously conservative - this video is not surprising at all. When people have money and they suspect their property values, school performance, and 'way of life' are at risk of changing they will NOT take a chance on bringing in new construction. In their minds, as long as the 'poors' are kept away from them and out of sight out of mind, at least THEY will be ok. They won't have to deal with homelessness, dirty streets, 'projects', etc. It's outdated, incorrect, and frankly not forward thinking - but that's what they are thinking. When it gets bad enough it will continue to spill into their neighborhoods and their own families will never be able to afford housing (and we see this happening right now)
This is purely for appearances and damage control. Nothing more. They are solely being allowed to appear objective in order to survive all of the garbage "reporting" they've been doing for years and to survive the resentment America has for them now more than ever. The media has logged more unprecedented failures in just the past few months than any other time in history so now they're pulling back from it as if they haven't been the cheerleaders for all of it.
This is just pure propaganda, there is no journalism here. You people are so starved for confirmation bias, you will just take everything. Lol, grow up.
@@kevmoful no, they don’t want crime living by them. Because poverty inherently increases criminality due to desperation, and lack of resources and opportunity. The thing is, “I don’t want my children living by that” can’t be the way you vote, unless you want to make it even more likely that your children’s children will live by that. Because, you see, this pattern of voting will only serve to intensify poverty, crime, and civic unrest.
@@IncredibleIceCastle people choose poverty in our current system. Our politicians are trying to force it on us with inflation and other things but for now poverty is a choice.
The funny thing too is republicans are pro school choice because we understand that freeing up the market would create competition that would drive the quality of education up to at least some semblance of reasonable. The "democratics" are anti school choice. The quote from the former vp Brandon is that he didn't wan't his kids going to a racial jungle
We'll, yeah, what do you expect, the truth? "I hate poor people and I want none of them around me." Republicans are constantly demonized for things like this. Bill Burr called this out about a decade ago. The only difference between the Reps and Dems, is the Reps are a little more honest.
In my area we have conservative democrats and liberal republicans and on the campaign trail they dirty but they all hang out together at the same country clubs.y city ain’t too bad. Has starting and ending areas.
I join the chorus of people extremely surprised that NYT run a story like this. Good on you. Criticise Republicans when they deserve it and criticise Democrats when they deserve it. Applaud Republicans when they deserve it and applaud Democrats when they deserve it. Then people will trust media again.
The whole world is not Republican or Democrat. Please stop pretending this is how people are really divided. These are the two choices the rich want us to think we have.
@@Misaka-gt5yj libertarianism scares me. Feel like if we got them as a 3rd party they’d immediately become corporate owned specially by ppl like the Koch brothers
I live in Toronto, a very liberal city in a very liberal country. And the whole “equality… so long as it’s not in my backyard” is spot on for most alleged progressives here.
Same here in Copenhagen, the city has been run by the left for 30 years and affordable apartments for " normal" people like school teachers, nurses, student and others has only been build in super low numbers while politicians say all the right things to their voter base. Extremely disappointing and hypocritical.
Funny because they live like that, but push their politics on places like Alberta which are absolutely 100 times nicer to live and work in as things are set up to succeed and develop wealth, not just inherit it.
Except at least in Canada the education system IS funded provincially the way he suggests, so it lessens the inequality between school districts, at least from a funding perspective.
Same in Ottawa. But our city council is typically 50/50 split between urban progressives and conservative rural districts, which leads to stalemates on things like roads and transportation, public services and utilities, and waste management. It's not fair to try and shoehorn the whole city into paying for municipal services that some will never use, like central bus services or a green bin program, or subsidized housing, but it impairs the areas that really rely on those policies to function. I've worked in urban development for years, and the best solution I can see is a removal or relaxing of zoning bylaws in key areas. It costs four times more to redevelop a lot in the downtown core than it is to have environmental impact statements and surveys for untouched green space for tract housing developments, and it's exacerbating problems with commutes and social infrastructure that existed before those communities were built. Tourism pushes mental health services and shelters away from prime real estate, and biking infrastructure is incomplete and often dangerous to cycle along. People claim they'll use these services if they're made well, and every time a new suggestion is made, the city blows the budget in consultation fees and costly joint ventures with private partnerships that never lead anywhere. NIMBYism is the bane of sensible urban planning, and it has really damaged any prospects of achieving popular consensus across the city right now.
Then why do you keep voting for what's wrong, what doesn't work, what you don't want to go along with? Why do you move to conservative states and cities, and then pressure those people to vote Democrat? Why do you call people racist who are just thinking like you, if you're honest, are?
Actual journalism isn't that rare, it's just almost never popular or dramatic. Blame the viewer/consumer for that. It's easy to accuse the industry or the media of corruption, not so easy to admit they're just giving the public what we want: intrigue, drama, and most of all, things that make us feel good about what we already believe.
@@MathewSteeleAtheology Yes you do need to look at the money, and at this time, these outlets are currently sponsored by the corporations who are backing this current administration/Harris for trillions in future revenue. This and other periodicals and magazines as well as ABC,CBS,MSNBC etc. only about 5 owners amongst all of them and the sponsors are consistent as well (pharma for example). [So you won't see a piece like this spring up right now]
As a conservative, I would absolutely love a piece from the New York Times that approached the Republican Party in this way. Respectful criticism is refreshing.
I highly doubt that there would be anything made, like this video, about the Rep. Party. it has always been opposite-standing authors who write pieces like this one, about the opposing party.
@@wenpatxczcvzcsfc well the majority of the republican party refuses to receive any real criticism of itself at this point, even from fellow conservatives, so yeah i doubt it.
@@pimpinaintdeadho No, they don’t actually. They vote for Democrats who oppose their own NIMBYism, like Newsom. All while voters clearly indicated their support for Proposition 13, for example.
@@jannguerreroWell put and coming from a former Californian I totally agree with the outlook that a lot of Californians are pretentiously contending for vanity and virtue signaling all of the time. Who is the coolest, or the most compassionate and "evolved" ... liberal Californians love to flex their perceived moral superiority and materialistic vanity. They've progressed so far apparently that their moral compass is completely upside down. The whole country has been looking at Cali like a Fallen Star ripe with elitist fascism. How many small businesses were strangled to death due to their draconian biofascist policies while the big corporations got to stay open?
Binya said "people aren't living their values". He's got it backwards: they are living their true values while espousing a completely different set of values.
I’m from beautiful state of California. I want say I’m in the middle but lean right. Because of the insane policies of our governor Gavin Newsom, California is a hot mess of homeless and criminals. Even my coworkers say he’s terrible and they are left leaning. So just want to say keep up the good work. ❤ your channel 🫡🇺🇸
Its a good story. I am glad they ran it because its an under addressed issue. But its also really misleading. It misses that its Republicans allied with small coalitions of Democrats blocking the rest of Democrats from making reforms. I mean yes we should call out hypocritical Democrats. But its important to realize that greater numbers of Republicans support these policies than Democrats do.
@@peterisawesomeplease How does this mean the video is misleading? The base hypothesis is how democrats can and actively do block progress without the help of Republicans. The whole point of making it seems to be to call to light problems that progressives generally don't notice or refuse to acknowledge simply because they're too focused on how the Republicans are bad. It makes no sense to bring up the mechanics of how the Republicans block reforms in a video about how the Democrats block reforms. In fact, it completely obfuscates the point. Let's say I was a young student and my homework was to write an essay about how dangerous Tigers are and how to avoid an attack. Do you think it would earn me marks to get to the third paragraph and be like: "Now, as you can see, Tigers are very dangerous. But, it turns out the Canadian Moose are even more dangerous!" And spend time talking about that instead? No. It has no bearing on what makes tigers dangerous or how to deal with them. In fact, I would hope that the tiger essay has no obfuscating points about how to protects yourself from Moose, because you may learn that it's safe to climb a tree to escape a tiger only to watch it claw its way up to you no problem. In fact, there's all sorts of dangerous things left unmentioned in this hypothetical essay, that doesn't mean they're not dangerous. Sorry, I just find this to be such a vapid, useless form of dissent and I see it everywhere. "They didn't mention a point that I think is important, so they could've done better!" But the reality is that making such a point actually makes the video worse.
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i know in paterson and jersey city, they spend 20-30k per student. wtf is this reporter reporting on?? the rich pay for this!!? the good schools spend much less per student. between 5-7k per student.
@ECOM.SCIENCE Still doesn't get around the fact that the rich pay the vast majority of the taxes. The progressive agenda is simply economic illiteracy, compounding by self undermining contradiction such as open borders, mass importation of dependents while complaining about housing wages and taxes.
The NYT run this? As a lifelong Democrat who has been screaming about this for 2 decades, I'm shocked that a corporate news publication has the guts to run with this. Good job on reporting actual news for a change, and please continue to do what you did here.
So why would you still consider yourself a Democrat if you've seen that the people you support, who wield the power, don't do anything regarding the things you dislike?
Dems, Republicans - they are all the same - look at the dems current efforts to repeal the SALT tax deduction - 100% of the benefit will go to the wealthy. It's all politics.
As someone who leans more liberal, I love that this video calmly and respectfully points out the flaws and weaknesses of democrats without being an all-out attack. Just rationally presenting facts and saying "look at this, *fix* it." Very well done, more journalists and people in the media and politicians need to be exactly like this. That would make it easier for everyone, regardless of their political views to hold themselves accountable and have an educated, balanced perspective.
Here's the thing. If you're "not living your values" they were never your values. They are things you would like to say you value, but what you actually do, defines your values. This is a perfect example of people wanting the appearance of virtue, without actually having to possess any.
@@reizayin Republicans are evil too but they're usually direct about it. Both of these corporate-sponsored parties are garbage. After 20 years of being a reliable blue vote, I'm done with both major parties. It's third party or bust for me.
@@korhashamo What he said at 0:51 pretty much nails it. The problem is that it isn't a fault of the two party system, here in Brazil we have multiple parties, but it always boils down to "us vs them", and it didn't take me long to realize that with a mindset like that, we won't really evolve much further as a species.
Except they left out all the progressive changes in Virginia that occurred after the Democrats gained full control of the state legislature in 2018. That would have been a better comparison of the stark difference between GOP "leadership" and actual Democratic governance.
@@icemachine79 I agree hopefully he will have a story where some good progressive programs have been implemented. But bottom line in California and New York liberal hyprocisy is horrifyingly damaging to low income minorities. To the point that the KKK just looks at the pounding racism of massive prison populations and horrible schools and thinks "how can they get away with that?'"
as a liberal myself this is actually true. I live in an extremely affluent suburb north of SF, and they're trying to build a 40-unit affordable housing building near the park down the hill from my house. But all the residents have been crying out against it, saying "I'm all for affordable housing, but not this project," and they continue to list the flaws of the project. We are a cookie cutter example of not in my backyard-ism.
It's understandable. If I bought a 5 million dollar home in a nice neighbourhood, I wouldn't want a project built near me. Maybe housing is a human right, but if you don't have any money, go live by a land fill, or get some money.
From the video, it was made abundantly clear that the real problem lies with the voters who elect the politicians. But it's always easier to blame someone else, isn't it? I'm a Democrat, and although opposed to the idea of "not in my backyard" and the hypocrisy present in that mindset, I recognize that blame can't be placed solely on Republicans, that Democratic voters need to take responsibility for the laws and policies enacted, especially on the local, county, and state level where they enjoy heavy majorities. I'm glad that this video exposes Democratic hypocrisy, I welcome the criticism, find it valid, but I think this video, despite a few sparse caveats, critically omits the inequalities in Republican majority states, towns, and districts. If a person is lower middle-income or poor, especially if a minority, it is my experience they generally fare far better where Democrats are in power than Republicans. This video also omits other forms of inequality and how Republicans at the national level and overall are the prime drivers of inequality. Most critically, it ignores how the GOP has abdicated its duty and responsibility to act as LOYAL opposition, instead descending into a fascist, nihilistic hyper-partisan cult. By failing to take into account the big picture, this opinion video fails to see the forest for the trees, which does the public a disservice. “Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I love how this video isn’t really pro-conservative or really anti-liberal. The way it just points out the hypocrisy without saying that their ideals are wrong is phenomenal
@@rick4580 You're right about one thing, Conservatives do not specifically want to use government to arrange for affordable housing and quality education. You Democrats have fooled yourself into thinking that your compassion without results is better than the Republicans' focus on good-economy-equals-good-everything (including but not limited to housing and education). The USA has better education than Angola not because of Democrats in the USA, but because of a great economy which was been championed and grown by the philosophy of the Right. In every single major political issue, Democrats oppose economic strength. Environment. Taxes. Spending. Entitlements. Lockdowns. Mandates. Everything always against the economy. Yet when there's not enough money to carry things out, they cry for more anti-economic, Leftist ideas. Because "displayed compassion" is better than actually helping people.
@@rick4580 Dude. Angola's stolen wealth by its corrupt leaders is not enough money to do any public service. Democrats stand in the way of all the reason the USA is a first world country. We're all lucky the current woke Democrat philosophy was not in power 200 years ago.
@@wandasewell4501Same, I believe they are switching there tone now because of the gigantic losses dems are facing across the country. Either way good video
The only way NYT would ever publish something like this is if it were coming from libs like the ones who made this video. Guarantee they wouldn’t publish an opinion piece that makes very similar points from the right. The right has been saying similar things for years, btw. I wish they’d have covered the homelessness, as well. They raise tons and tons of money for the homeless, but it’s just never even used for the homeless. Sure wish I knew what they really used that money for. 😑
It’s refreshing to hear criticism coming from people who are nominally on the same “side”. Instead of being venomous attacks, it feels more like a call to do better. This is what criticism should be.
And the call to do better isn't a virtue signal for brownie points within their circles either. People (especially the coddled and usually wealthy) need practice taking criticism so they can catch themselves hissing at mirrors and not crack during their personal plot twist in identity.
More conservative and libertarian people have been saying this to the left for a long time, but instead of listening you just pawned it off as viscous attacks.
Yep same with USA illegal immigration. It took the border states sharing the load by filling busses and aircraft with people illegally crossing the southern border to the states who said it wasn't a problem, for them to finally admit it's actually a problem.
They just forgot to add the other side of the coin where the GOP is aright and all the propaganda they have been pumping into the pro-Dem and anti-Rep debate has lead to this.
Actually, I think someone was asleep at the editing desk and allowed this to slip by because John had professional capital. I doubt they’ll let it happen again.
@@ab3040 Not according to the extensive research conducted by Mark Levin. But I think they lean a little more left of center than they were about 20 years ago.
I do think it's really non-coincidental that they excluded New York from the video tho. New York has some major problems even more so than Washington for example and they didn't mention them at all. It really did seem like New York richie journalists attacking all the other blue states except our own type of piece.
Not journalism. Marxist propaganda. You should know this by now. This is why you and your fellow citizens are having to endure this exercise in remedial civilization. Apparently, all you have to do is a little rebranding and you can sell Marxism and communism to Americans now. Your foolishness is magnificent. There is a term for people like you but I would be CENSORED for typing it. So I will say that right now you are a useful person that does things without thinking.
@henk who me? paranoid? hardly. What is astounding is that people can't see it. Actually they can see it but they can't let themselves think about it. Furthermore, my opinion is hardly fringe. Whatever you say. Sit back and watch the show. You'll come around the instant it comes home, I'm sure.
I've almost forgotten what REAL journalism looks like from the big names in the game. Thank you for not only educating yourselves but all of us viewing this video on what's really going on in our country. I'd love to see more of this in the future.
They're just blaming the blue city disasters on people instead of democratic policies... Its a bait and switch. Zoning isn't the only reason housing isn't being developed in California, its regulations, particularly environmental regulations. I'm glad they're pointing out hypocrisy in the rich left. Also, there are a lot of inner city districts that get equal or more funding then their suburban counterparts, yet the suburban districts outperform the inner city districts. Simply throwing money at a problem wont' fix it.. Also, these kids underperform probably because they are just focusing on surviving in these dangerous communities. You know what predicts good educational outcomes better than school spending, family stability. Kids growing up in single family homes are way more likely to drop out of high school, get worse grades, etc etc.
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Coming from a progressive leftist, this kind of criticism of the American left is completely necessary. Continuing to just blame conservatives for everything that's wrong will not help anyone but liberals' egos. Good video! Edit: No I am not a liberal or a democrat, I am well aware that is different from a progressive leftist. I'm not conflating these things, just pointing out something I see in both circles
@@TheKazzerscout "Being a leftist doesn't mean being a big D Democrat." I'm sorry, I understand you may feel like you need to distance yourself from this. I'd like to point out some things (and I want you to understand I'm not coming after you, your beliefs, your political opinions or the merit of either.) This piece is underling something important that you may need to listen to. Areas that are primarily liberal leaning (or claim to be) don't hold up to those tenants of liberalism when it comes to their door. They want to claim these ideas, but never put the work in. Big D Democrats (not all but some) claim these ideas. Why? Also, and this is just an aside for me, it's telling that "opinion" had to be plastered all over this video.
America in a nutshell........ And it's funny because John Oliver made a point, to point this out two days ago on Sunday when addressing the Power grid problem this country is facing......
What those homeowners don’t realize is that residential real estate sale appraisals are based on “sales of comparable real estate”. So their property values are not exactly affected by that affordable senior citizen apartment building. The appraisal of the properties that are adjacent to the apartments could be affected by the building, but the other houses in that neighborhood will have their appraisals adjusted if being compared with one of the adjacent houses.
The analysis is false. The situation is really a tragedy of the commons: the Commons in this case being a real estate market. The winners are the developers; The losers are the owners of single-family dwellings who can’t afford the taxes that go up as developers imagine the opportunity to build multi family and dancer housing structures. The truth is that much of the homeless problem is an issue of mental illness and addiction. The rest of the homeless problem is in evitable as everyone wants to move to the same beautiful areas of the world. Do we really need to tear down the beautiful park like neighborhoods that everyone wants to live in just that that they can be turned into ghetto-like apartment buildings? I guarantee that if this happens the wealthier people will simply move out and the New tax base won’t be able to support the cities and their former glory
The most amazing thing about this video is the comment section is absolutely loaded with both the left and the right coming together saying they want more journalism like this. They want more honesty like this. Why want more criticality like this. Even more so, it's awesome to find Republicans, Democrats, Progressives and Libertarians all agreeing that they want more of this critical analysis done on 'their side' and that they all generally agree on wanting far better outcomes out've the system and government we elect as a whole. We all want the same things to some degree. We are truly not as divided as the media makes us seem... If only we could all turn off the media and talk to eachother, openly, we'd all realize this.
@@HenryBenedictUSA I've heard CNN is losing it's audience. And that's a good thing. They became too far left that they forgot they must balance things and must heard the right side without bias and ambiguous wordings.
As a conservative non-Trumper, I completely agree. The two party system has failed us all. This has spilled over into the media as all have noted. Our leaders on both sides are selfish narcissists, so far out of touch with the 80% in the middle that they can’t understand what the country needs. I don’t see our government changing, so we just get whiplashed every time there is a party change in power. There are no winners in this scenario. We all need to demand more from the politicians. I wish we could call them leaders but they don’t deserve that level of respect.
I used to buy the NYT every morning on my commute to work in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They had real journalists back then. Welcome back to some semblance of honest journalism Gray Lady.
Don't fall for it. Dems losing votes so media will turn in order to protect their bottom line. These media outlets should NEVER be given relevance or praise ever again.
Yes! I have tried a subscribtion to the NYT and this is normally not they kind of journalism they do. So even for $4/month I cancelled. But I'm happy to see this here. Great job here and I saved this to my favorites playlist.
@@LSPalm drs. give medical opinions all the time…professional opinions are usually a narrative posited by an expert that is informed by the relevant facts. Honestly, that some people think there’s no more nuance to fact and opinion than the basics they learned in third grade really explains a lot about the hole humanity has found itself in.
yep - white liberals are the absolute worst. they only favor and look out for fellow whites while virtue signaling and patting themselves about how much they care about minorities. as a minority plenty of us are waking up to left wing bs.
This was a refreshing piece of journalism. When I read the title, I had to click just to see whether the New York times would actually run something critical of blue states. Very well done, and as a life long resident of Western Washington, I approve of the content and it's 100% accurate. Seattle used to be a beautiful place to live, until Californians started selling their houses for huge amounts of money, and coming here to buy up prime real estate. Sad thing is they have now turned the state that they came to take advantage of into a duplicate of the place they left.
Californians do that to every single city/ state they move to. Denver and the surrounding area is a prime example. It's unrecognizable compared to what it was as recently as the 90's.
California public policy is a big factor as to why housing is so expensive there. They have some of the strictest zoning laws in the country and were representative of a disproportionate rate of overvaluations and subsequent mortgage defaults.
@@SimGunther the way to so that is to transition from income taxes to consumption tax. A national sales tax is far more fair to everyone, you pay the government based on what you spend instead of what you earn.
@@ChrisZahrte This dude is definitely a liberal. He didn't need to touch on any conservative points in this video because it isn't about them, every one of these points is something that conservatives already oppose. This is meant to be a wake up call for the liberals
@@Dr4gon2000 I agree. I am absolutely fine with other liberals and progressives calling out our politicians, especially with this kind of research. Republicans definitely don't have a leg to stand on, but this is absolutely needed!
How do most of you guys make so much wealth, I'm just curious about the whole process. I still haven't figured out what to invest in yet. Somebody once told me "It costs you more to be poor." 🤯
Well, I picked the challenge to put my finances in order. Then i invested in cryptocurrency, stocks, through the assistance of my discretionary fund manager
What do you expect from millionaires who preach about open borders, gun control, and climate change while taking private jets to work from their gated communities surrounded by armed guards. It's time to wake up and see who the real bourgeoisie are in America.
Judging by the comment section, it seems most of us are done with the current two party system. Two sides of the same coin. Excellent reporting on NYT's part!
From the other side of the Atlantic, it seems all too clear that money dominates the political system in the US. The candidates with biggest bank balances get elected, and it appears that the older the better as well. Here your two parties would be considered Right Wing (Reps) and Centrist (Dems). There is no real left wing in America, i.e. someone who would start building affordable housing and putting into place genuine schemes to help poorer folk, as well as providing a proper national health service.
@@bignasty389 In the UK it is undeniable that most Tory politicians have gone to Eton or Harrow and come from very privileged backgrounds. However, quite a few Labour leaders haven't and although all MPs earn a lot of money in their job few are what would be considered rich in the US. There are also fairly strict rules about MPs earning extra money by capitalising on their status, they have to declare all their financial interests.
It’s partly our fault for not demanding better. When things are plodding along and it’s not a constant dumpster fire we’re happy to just keep the status quo.
They wanted to ban plastic bags where I live. My mom was like "No plastic bags, at all?" I said "Mom, but if it's bad for the environment..." and she voted in favor of it. So yeah, not true.
Hey! from France. Good luck with your strikes and take care of each other to be able to hold longer, you gonna need it even more as they just gutted the "reconciliation" bill to rebuild the USA. But if you want to be noticed you can do a "casserolade", it's an old french "recipe" to make some noise. I don't talk about cuisine, I talk about an old way to protest in the street to make noise and/or music with a pan or a saucepan and spoons made of wood. It's quite festive. ;-) Hi from France and here is a smarter way to pray... just kidding, to think: Don't ask yourself if you have good reasons to think what you think (confirmation bias) but rather ask yourself if you have bad reasons to believe what you are so confortable to think. In a nutshell, the way of the lawyers versus the way of the good scientists. ;-)
@@america1754 Not all "NIMBY's" are the same. I don't agree with continually building high-end, luxury housing, when there is clearly a much greater need for low-income, and very low-income housing. Most folks incomes don't fall into the upper class, or upper middle class bracket. Greed and overt political corruption are ruling society now.
@Welcome to Clown World! The profit motive and insular nature of political elites as upper class people and those working around them also being upper class people explains most of everything.
no but he was one of them few years ago was pushing mass illegal immigration intom the west , this guy is a hypocrite him self, was pushing misinformation 4 yerars the irony
All you did was look at the title. Half the housing problem in California (which was half his thesis) is because people want to live in state with such a good economy and the housing system can't keep up with demand.
This is a great piece. Serious props for putting aside your personal politics to get to the truth of the matter - that’s REAL journalism that the muckrakers would be proud of. I’d be very interested to see a parallel piece on states where Republicans have all the power.
When Malcolm X and MLK Jr criticized the white liberal, this kind of analysis was also their vantage point. The hypocrisy, the blatant classism, rhetoric without substance, etc.
This is an ironic claim because the original quote is "white moderate", not white liberal. And it's probably convenient for you to misremember it as such, because the moderates are less NIMBy than the people on the "real left" who are more likely to oppose a affordable housing construction. People hailed as some sort of working class heroes by the political outsider crowd (think Bernie and friends) have opposed construction of affordable homes over made up "gentrification" fears, or complaining about "neighborhood character" like (robert reich did). This extends all the way to pop culture figures who like to posture themselves as anti mainstream (recently Dave Chappelle who specifically opposed just the affordable part of a construction project near his home). Or take the case of a columbia professor who likened an affordable housing contruction to colonialism because, get this, it was gonna built in place of a private dog park. Now-a-days its the moderate who can be trusted to support the pragmatic solution, hear and now.. rather than make infinite purity tests and fault every solution like the "real left'.
Yep. I saw something about homelessness, and it changed my view on it. I have come to the conclusion that I would much rather look out my window and see a homeless shelter, or some type of assistance or charity, than look out my window, and see a homeless camp.
I'm not a bleeding heart. But I have helped numerous friends with a roof when they needed. I would not help a felon . Who would get away with it tho.. in case you don't know .. illegal immigration is a felony...
@@tobiasreaper3650 Go check out the piece on homelessness in Salt Lake City UT; or lack thereof. They actually went through the effort to do a Cost Benefit Analysis and found putting homeless in apartments was cheaper than letting them be on the streets/shelters. AND here's the best part, once the homeless got stable housing, they were able to get Jobs and become productive members of society instead of a drain. Seattle, Denver, LA; homelessness is rampant despite being "Progressive Liberal Cities".
It is FREE to reach down and pick up a piece of trash on the sidewalk or side of the road. I live in a nice neighborhood, but still, people throw trash out of their car window as they drive by. So my family picks up any trash that lands on our yard. I did the same WHEN I WAS RENTING. If people don’t want to live surrounded by trash, why not start by picking it up? Why expect someone else to do it? Have some pride in where you live, whether you own it or not. Poverty is largely a mindset. I know, because my family started out with nothing and rose above.
I live in Palo Alto, and this is exactly what happens. the people here pretend to be “left wing” however as soon as the policies that help the people they “fight for” interfere witg their lives in any way, its a no. liberal hypocrisy is extremely real
@@viljamtheninja Maybe I didn't watch the video close enough, but I'd bet money that these same issues occur in less liberal areas. Reality is that most high income areas tend to be liberal. I'm sure if you found some red states with similar high income neighborhoods, you'd see the exact same things represented here.
@@justinlane1768 The high income areas are only liberal in liberal states. Do you think conservative states don’t have high income areas? Because the high income areas around where I’m from is mostly conservative.
Yep, in a "Christian" country theres nowadays no Discipline, Integrity, Morals, and Ethics. Now its all about choice and those who make their OWN choices get the outcomes they get.
@@privacyandfreedom5344 Just because you don't like Christians, that doesn't mean that America isn't still a Christian country. America is bigger than you and your mates.
@@contrariobastian4046 i mean that comment isnt wrong i totally agree, but i was replying to why the media is less polarizing the past couple months. it gets SUPER polarized during elections. also nowadays the average american knows the media is complete BS. they have to build their reputation back up maybe?
This really was a breath of fresh air and a great move in the right direction for journalism. REAL journalism, calling out liars regardless of what their tweets or signs say.
that's why I love Johnny Harris. if you spend any time watching his stuff his political leanings are very clear but he isn't at all afraid of calling out those who claim to share the same values. it's exactly what this world and america in particular needs more of
@@arseface2k934 I dont like his channel too much because he sometimes leans too far into presenting sponsorships as facts (his stakeholder video), but I think this is a good video, I already have heard about all of it but it's a good video nonetheless showing the flaws in the american electoral system with unequal representation for ideas that are alternative to the capitalist norm
@@briaryos1 it’s weird that he calls it opinion then he goes on stating all kinds of facts. This way more factual than anything you’ll hear on cable news where it’s 2% facts 98% opinions being said as if they were facts
@@crowdedveins9210 Yes, you're right. I can't watch cable news anymore -- left or right, it doesn't matter. Too much gamesmanship and posturing; not enough consideration of opposing points of view.
It's an interesting subject, but ultimately mediocre in it's conclusions. Democrats say they are for one thing, but are actually for another. Shocking I tell you, shocking.
Washington's tax code no longer looks like that because they passed a tax increase in May of this year. So either this video was not published on Nov 9th (so earlier than May), or this guy is misleading on his points. It's why you should always fact check rather than become "speechless".
As a former resident of Cook County, Chicago, I can attest that this is exactly the case. The difference in schooling - quality, teachers, resource allocation, safety - is shocking. Public school education is a joke and has been for decades.
It's really sad! I interviewed for a grant writing job at Chicago Public Schools and when they explained how the funding worked in Cook County I immediately knew I would not school my kid(s) in the district. And don't get me started on the power the Chicago Teacher's Union has...
@@UraraHopeT16842 I think you have the lifecycle backwards. The Chicago suburbs inside of Cook county, having developed their own high-quality town-only school system, then refused to join Chicago. The author's use of "gerrymandered" is bogus here because it implies some sort of intention to those boundaries.
@@arielpeterson8773 I'm not exactly sure but I'm guessing money. The CPS system has 4 or 5 tiers with charter and magnet schools being at the top. The most selective schools also have the highest performances and families with the most income.
@@t0ysoldier18 Doesn't even matter how much you vote or come out in force They'll fortify the election with newly uncovered votes conveniently found in a high enough amount days or weeks after counting
*Loads shotgun* Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat you're right it doesn't matter. All that matters is you stay where you are and don't leave.
@@k_tess NIMBYism is the perfect term for all of this. As for the housing issues in CA, perhaps there are just too many people living there in the first place? Lest we forget, SoCal is a desert after all and you can't stack millions of people in a desert and not expect to have problems. There are almost 40 million people living in the state with LA County hosting over 10 million (according to the US Census). I'm originally from CA but I moved away in 1995 when I joined the military. Every time I come back to visit (about every 3 years), I'm blown away on how crowded it is. Yet, I never hear about the issue of a bloated population and they're talking about building MORE HOUSING. Freeways will have to be 8 lanes in each direction. It will end up being like Mega City 1 in Judge Dredd.
@@commisaryarreck3974 now you don’t really believe that? The person who was in charge of the election in the last administration said it was the most secure election this country has had.Ask yourself, why in the last election it was suddenly fraud when in elections past there were none? A person with no integrity crying foul? Best beware of that person.
Not sure if you intended it, but the pun you created with step in the right, as in correct direction, and right, as in conservative, is pretty cool. Good job
Sir the title is very misleading. The content of this video is a far-left critique of centrist Democrats. NYT went from criticizing conservatives to criticizing their own dems for not being progressive enough. Really strange and interesting marketing technique lol
@@insertchannelnamehere8685 I think you're missing the theme here. This video isn't a conservative critique of liberalism. It's a liberal critique of liberals. They're basically saying liberals aren't liberal enough.
I can't believe that UA-cam actually suggested this video to me. I'm also surprised this video hasn't been taken off the UA-cam platform. Great journalism right here.
Not even then. Progressives are the worst hypocrites. If more housing is built anywhere it will lower their house value. They are Champaign socialists.
Its worse than that though. People who own investment properties that are rented out, far out of their own neighborhood are out of reach for the poor. Nobody wants to rent to the poor.
the thing is, affordable housing is fine, but you need to run it well and be very proactive to not turn neighborhoods into slums, and that also inherently means you don't just churn out gated wealthy communities. It's a very delicate balancing act. Which is NOT what the federal, or even most local, government can achieve.
"When someone tells you that they 'agree with you in principle.' What they are saying is that they have no intention of carrying out any action in practice." -- Otto Von Bismarck.
Weird, can you send me a link from where you found the quote? Cant seem to find it when I search it up. The content of it makes sense, considering his realpolitik philosophy - I just thought the wording to me more modern I suppose
@@sp691 Apparently, I paraphrased. Fading memory. Exact quote is, unsurprisingly, much better (though it wasn't too hard to find ..) "When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
-Everywhere. I lived on a street with 80-90% virtue signal sign ("in this house we....") coverage. A local moonbat was pushing for a homeless camp to be in the park nearby and our street facebook group exploded with discussion about why it is not a good idea and should be elsewhere etc. A conservative pointed out it was residents of another area pushing for it to be by us. Can't make this stuff up.
California isn't inundated with homeless because of housing. The homeless are coming to California for the same reason they are going to Seattle: They can camp on the street, buy drugs easily, use drugs openly, defecate on the street, and steal from businesses without fear of repercussions. There is a reason Walgreens is closing some of its stores in the Bay Area.
I respect this piece of journalism. I wish both sides would be willing to look in the mirror more often and hold themselves accountable instead of always pointing the finger at "them."
@David Wang Are you kidding me? Biden is far more of a dictator than Trump ever was. You nutcases were painting him as a dictator before he was even in office, before he did a single thing. That was the lie you painted from the start and like a dog with a bone you refuse to let it go.
This is fantastic journalism. I hope this becomes more than a simple "gotcha" against liberals and people on all sides can evaluate whether their actions line up with their purported values.
Yeah, I would imagine that there's similar stuff in every corner of the political environment. Gotta love climate change activists using planes, and while I can't think of anything relating to republicans contradicting their statements, I also do not pay close attention to politics on my own (a friend of mine mentioned the climate change thing) and can't be bothered to go look for any instances right now.
@@YellowSkarmory this might be naive, but I think if everyone focused more on improving the people around them at an individual level, it would solve a lot of the problems that come up in politics. The big battles remain important, but I'm trying to live by the idea that we're never going to be able to care for our country if we cannot first care for the person in front of us.
"I think people aren't living their values." Incorrect, they are living their values. They just lie about what their values actually are to signal how good they want people to think they are.
@@jameslebron2403 Well, the Blue half maybe. The reds are just open about their views on the hard decisions. Except when they contradict themselves...oh wait hang on a tick...
There’s no such thing as “not living our values.” If you aren’t living them, they aren’t your values. They are just talking points that help you feel better about not actually living them.
Yeas and no. Some cricumstances do have a larger control over you. If you're for example broke and untalented, you might have to work in an industry, that kills you from the inside (doing stuff against you inner moral compass). Just to survive.
The “equal opportunity but not in my backyard” attitude of wealthy liberals. I grew up around that. I’m actually from district 39 in Cook county that the video mentions.
I'm from Connecticut which he also mentions in the video and the state is EXACTLY like that. Literally a poor side and a Uber rich side. I illegally went to a wealthier high school to avoid the one falling apart in my neighborhood. We got caught though and sent back. The disparity between rich and poor is so stark
I had an internship for cook county that involved a lot of walking around through those neighborhoods. My co worker was black…and we got the police called on us several times that summer because we “looked suspicious” despite having construction vests AND a county vehicle, and these were those rich liberal neighborhoods where every other house had a BLM or Pride flag out front.
It's not a wealth thing, it's a narcissist thing. Everything is all well and good with ideology, especially if it garners virtue, until it impacts the narcissist negatively. Narcissists don't understand thinking outside of their perspective and how it would effect them in their own shoes.
@@cattycorner8 You've completely lost the plot bud. this entire video centers around the fact educational funding and other essential funding and resources are being withheld from those in desperate need of it by using tax codes. Tax codes voted in by the same people that preach for equality and diversity in their communities. I must have missed the part of the video you are talking about, go ahead and time stamp where they talk about the elimination of private property for me.
i was under the impression nyt already aligned more with progressives. why would them criticizing the democrats be anything new? they just dont criticize them during election years. lol.
My friend in Chicago lied about his address by pretending to live with a family friend so he could get into a good high school. He ended up going to an Ivy league and is very successful but wouldn’t have had half the opportunity if he hadn’t advocated for himself as a child and “snuck” into a better school
My niece used grandmas address to go to the tony high school in her neighborhood. Had to lie about it all four years, had to be driven by mom back and forth, never had a friend from school over, but she got a far better education without gangs.
I almost can't believe my eyes that this story was actually done. Hopefully people actually are able to see the blatant hypocrisy that's right in front of them.
I think the story is less about pointing the hypocrisy finger (because that's a never ending feud for everyone), and more about actually questioning how your actions align with your values and not listening to politicians telling you to blame the other side.
genuinely connot believe this many people dont understand systems. At 5:56 he explains how in a DEMOICRATIC state, they voted for compact affordable housing, THEN, a neighbour hood RE voted to change it to big houses. THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, probably wasn't democratic. So why did he blame this on the party? When the democrats are the reason it was made an option in the first place. EVERY single one of his points leaves out important system lines.
Thank you New York Times for having the guts to upload this, it is so very true. We live in a "I'm a good person" era, where showing to your friends on IG, FB or Linkedin that you're a good person, but when it comes to taking action they don't do it.
yes, I think people underestimate how much of an underlying (and overt) impact social media has had on creating this beast. People are putting themselves in these mind-warping skinner box rat races where everyone's comparing themselves to each other and it's driving envy and pride in many people. Unsurprisingly these people may be severely mislead and have their judgement impaired.
They are about to go out of business, and they see how many views honest people like Russell Brand and Joe Rogan get (not saying I'm a fan or agree with them on everything but at least they're honest unlike Dems).
The effect on education is prevalent everywhere if we’re being truly honest. Much more of a rich vs poor rather than dem vs rep. As a conservative you made some excellent points but the system truly is keep the rich rich, and keep the poor down and fighting amongst ourselves. Why can’t they just rewrite the tax code to 15% across the board, no loopholes, no easy tax evasion if you know the codes, a one tax for all and an enhanced focus on how that money is put back into our communities
A critique of the liberals coming from progressives? This is what we need right now. Thank you New York Times. Edit: I don't know if Johnny Harris is progressive, but the argument seems to be coming from a left-wing perspective
@G G I'm not sure about where Johnny Harris stands politically. He seems like a "radical centrist" who is more interested in good old fashioned investigative journalism targeting the powerful. He left the Mormon Church as a young adult, so he's clearly a very critical, questioning person who's less interested in dogma and more in finding truth. The critique in this video, however, is very similar to the kind that progressives make against hypocritical wealthy liberals (I say as a progressive who likes to criticize hypocritical wealthy liberals). The only issue I take with it, however, is how there is no delineation between progressive/activist/leftist circles, who have been calling out blue state hypocrisy for years, and the liberals that this video rightly calls out. Like the right, the left is not a monolith, perhaps even moreso if the perennial meme about "leftist infighting" is anything to go off of.
Palo alto is not a very liberal place at all. To center half your video about that one case and then gloss over the fact that they banned single family zoning as a minor ‘step forward’ is a joke.
"You cannot say you are against inequality in America unless you are willing to have affordable housing built in your neighborhood." - Great quote and this really demonstrates a big part of the issue. A lot of people want "equality" until it affects them... Great video, I'll definitely recommend this for others to watch.
This is a tough one, because I totally understand wanting to preserve the feel of a loved community, but that doesn't give the excuse to just leave people without housing. There has to be a compromise here. It doesn't have to be elitism to want to preserve a community, but when you use that as an excuse to not care for the poor then it absolutely is.
@@tommy8982 revisiting this video, saw this comment. Unsure what it is meant to mean, especially considering the video explicitly lays out the exact ideology & policy that is causing many, many Americans to struggle to live somewhere. Both sides share blame. The thing about your comment is: nowhere in my comment or on my profile do I say what “side” I am on, or what opinion I have. You don’t know if I am one way or another, I simply found the video “refreshing” to watch as it doesn’t just pander or make excuses for what is causing these housing problems. You made an assumption and made a majorly conceited, and equally narrow-sighted, remark. I feel sorry for you.
@@stachowi Oh, I think that includes all the poor, regardless of race. Can you really imagine poor whites being welcome there? The really poor some call "white trash"? No way would they want those people either.
So you would rather the rich people not be pushing for policies that would be helping the poor? I'm not really sure how people are trying to draw such a distinct hypocrisy because poor areas are typically higher rates of crime, correct?
This was really good. As a New York resident of 3 years I’m confused when “progressive” city council leaders and state leaders still can’t get any real movement on housing , homelessness, or education in a place like bed stuy.
Because creating a culture of dependency well suits the Democrats to keep winning elections while throwing a few morsels of toward the marginalized, especially to the African American community. Tried and tested way to grab power.
@@meengla that's a great example of the opposite of what is happening. Wealthy countries spend money to improve the outcomes of the citizens in the most desperate situations because it benefits all of society and saves money. The USA does this less than most peer countries and democrats cater to voters who want to improve society but then don't do it (for many reasons - mostly $ in politics). In the places they could, the people benefitting(the privileged) don't actually want to change anything.
@@ph1am Maybe Democrats, as this video clearly implies, don't really want to 'improve'? If so then 'real change' would be happening. Maybe because the downtrodden in America are mostly of visible minorities unlike in other rich, more homogenous countries??
@@meengla the Democratic party is a con and has no reason to change anything. Dem voters generally want things to change but they don't want to be the first to sacrifice something. The 2 party system serves the financial corporate elite. The con isn't providing a social safety net - - it's keeping labor dependent on a rigged marketplace because there isn't one. The company's will exploit you and hold your children's health hostage and that's if you can make it into the walled garden of corporate employment with benefits.
Hi, I'm Johnny Harris, one of the producers for this Opinion Video. I've always wondered why famously liberal states like California and Washington struggled to advance progressive policies, so I teamed up with NYT Editorial Board member Binya Appelbaum to get some answers. I'd love to know what most surprised you most in this video, or answer any questions you may have about how we made it - leave your comments below.
You are the best!!! Love the facts-based content.
"In their mating & migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the KKK."
- Joseph Sobran
Appreciate this perspective. Just try being nicer to California next time. It means a lot to me :c
How realistic is the reality where state officials could leverage tax revenue etc. into financing solutions out of these crisis without economic backlash and perhaps other issues?
As a resident growing up in California in Orange County - notoriously conservative - this video is not surprising at all. When people have money and they suspect their property values, school performance, and 'way of life' are at risk of changing they will NOT take a chance on bringing in new construction. In their minds, as long as the 'poors' are kept away from them and out of sight out of mind, at least THEY will be ok. They won't have to deal with homelessness, dirty streets, 'projects', etc.
It's outdated, incorrect, and frankly not forward thinking - but that's what they are thinking. When it gets bad enough it will continue to spill into their neighborhoods and their own families will never be able to afford housing (and we see this happening right now)
I would never have believed the NYT would run a story like this. Well done.
Hope springs eternal
Right?!
Has to be an ulterior motive to it
Yeah, I still don't... 🤔🕵
This is purely for appearances and damage control. Nothing more. They are solely being allowed to appear objective in order to survive all of the garbage "reporting" they've been doing for years and to survive the resentment America has for them now more than ever. The media has logged more unprecedented failures in just the past few months than any other time in history so now they're pulling back from it as if they haven't been the cheerleaders for all of it.
This is huge - someone put their foot down and said hey let’s actually do journalism again. I’m thrilled.
This is just pure propaganda, there is no journalism here. You people are so starved for confirmation bias, you will just take everything. Lol, grow up.
@@diptarkadas5193 Can you please develop on your view? What’s the propaganda in this video according to you
@@diptarkadas5193 what propaganda? Open your eyes kid
My God, how dumb are people? This is Marxist propaganda you fool.
@@diptarkadas5193 dude I’m a lefty left left person - calling out power imbalances and hypocrisy is fr a great thing
"I love poor people, I just don't want them living anywhere near me."
Everyone who has children feels the same way
@@kevmoful no, they don’t want crime living by them. Because poverty inherently increases criminality due to desperation, and lack of resources and opportunity. The thing is, “I don’t want my children living by that” can’t be the way you vote, unless you want to make it even more likely that your children’s children will live by that. Because, you see, this pattern of voting will only serve to intensify poverty, crime, and civic unrest.
@@IncredibleIceCastle people choose poverty in our current system. Our politicians are trying to force it on us with inflation and other things but for now poverty is a choice.
The funny thing too is republicans are pro school choice because we understand that freeing up the market would create competition that would drive the quality of education up to at least some semblance of reasonable. The "democratics" are anti school choice. The quote from the former vp Brandon is that he didn't wan't his kids going to a racial jungle
We'll, yeah, what do you expect, the truth? "I hate poor people and I want none of them around me."
Republicans are constantly demonized for things like this. Bill Burr called this out about a decade ago. The only difference between the Reps and Dems, is the Reps are a little more honest.
This aged like fine wine. Perhaps introspect is needed.
Came here to say this
yeah maybe the democratic would get somewhere if they didn't run a campaign based off of disdain for the other party lmaoo
In my area we have conservative democrats and liberal republicans and on the campaign trail they dirty but they all hang out together at the same country clubs.y city ain’t too bad. Has starting and ending areas.
In California housing has gotten better, at least I. SF we are trying to not allow huge corporations to build overpriced high rises.
@ but the left said you need high rises to increase housing!!!! Yeah there’s no perfect solution just know the area and the market.
I join the chorus of people extremely surprised that NYT run a story like this. Good on you.
Criticise Republicans when they deserve it and criticise Democrats when they deserve it.
Applaud Republicans when they deserve it and applaud Democrats when they deserve it.
Then people will trust media again.
Actually, while I agree. America needs a new party. Both main parties are corporately owned.
@@meephead6636 Consider the Forward party or Libertarians.
@Lynne Hughes not exactly
The whole world is not Republican or Democrat. Please stop pretending this is how people are really divided. These are the two choices the rich want us to think we have.
@@Misaka-gt5yj libertarianism scares me. Feel like if we got them as a 3rd party they’d immediately become corporate owned specially by ppl like the Koch brothers
I live in Toronto, a very liberal city in a very liberal country. And the whole “equality… so long as it’s not in my backyard” is spot on for most alleged progressives here.
Same here in Copenhagen, the city has been run by the left for 30 years and affordable apartments for " normal" people like school teachers, nurses, student and others has only been build in super low numbers while politicians say all the right things to their voter base. Extremely disappointing and hypocritical.
Funny because they live like that, but push their politics on places like Alberta which are absolutely 100 times nicer to live and work in as things are set up to succeed and develop wealth, not just inherit it.
you live in a WOKE City Under UN agenda puppets usurping Canadians
Except at least in Canada the education system IS funded provincially the way he suggests, so it lessens the inequality between school districts, at least from a funding perspective.
Same in Ottawa. But our city council is typically 50/50 split between urban progressives and conservative rural districts, which leads to stalemates on things like roads and transportation, public services and utilities, and waste management. It's not fair to try and shoehorn the whole city into paying for municipal services that some will never use, like central bus services or a green bin program, or subsidized housing, but it impairs the areas that really rely on those policies to function.
I've worked in urban development for years, and the best solution I can see is a removal or relaxing of zoning bylaws in key areas. It costs four times more to redevelop a lot in the downtown core than it is to have environmental impact statements and surveys for untouched green space for tract housing developments, and it's exacerbating problems with commutes and social infrastructure that existed before those communities were built. Tourism pushes mental health services and shelters away from prime real estate, and biking infrastructure is incomplete and often dangerous to cycle along. People claim they'll use these services if they're made well, and every time a new suggestion is made, the city blows the budget in consultation fees and costly joint ventures with private partnerships that never lead anywhere. NIMBYism is the bane of sensible urban planning, and it has really damaged any prospects of achieving popular consensus across the city right now.
Coming from a left wing person, it’s great to see a video that isn’t just mindlessly bashing the right but shows us what we are doing wrong
@@benklingman Liberals are only Left-Wing if you don´t have a Left.
Thinking the Democrats are left is the problem
I hope u didn't need this video to realize that
@Kosch GM what do you mean? The right does the same thing
Then why do you keep voting for what's wrong, what doesn't work, what you don't want to go along with? Why do you move to conservative states and cities, and then pressure those people to vote Democrat? Why do you call people racist who are just thinking like you, if you're honest, are?
a RARE piece of actual journalism. Surprised to see it from the NYT, but I'll take it, and hope for more.
Actual journalism isn't that rare, it's just almost never popular or dramatic. Blame the viewer/consumer for that. It's easy to accuse the industry or the media of corruption, not so easy to admit they're just giving the public what we want: intrigue, drama, and most of all, things that make us feel good about what we already believe.
@@MathewSteeleAtheology Yes you do need to look at the money, and at this time, these outlets are currently sponsored by the corporations who are backing this current administration/Harris for trillions in future revenue. This and other periodicals and magazines as well as ABC,CBS,MSNBC etc. only about 5 owners amongst all of them and the sponsors are consistent as well (pharma for example). [So you won't see a piece like this spring up right now]
@@I321Oo You're only looking at the money, I'm suggesting that you look past the money at why it's getting spent... not just who is spending it.
It's an op Ed. Lmao
so it’s only journalism if it is criticizing the left? hm
As a conservative, I would absolutely love a piece from the New York Times that approached the Republican Party in this way. Respectful criticism is refreshing.
yes, so unlike NYT, i'm growing my respect for them back.
Oh they are terrible too. Neverending wars, tax cuts for high income earners, legalizing institutional corruption etc. #YangGang
I highly doubt that there would be anything made, like this video, about the Rep. Party. it has always been opposite-standing authors who write pieces like this one, about the opposing party.
@@wenpatxczcvzcsfc well the majority of the republican party refuses to receive any real criticism of itself at this point, even from fellow conservatives, so yeah i doubt it.
@@shayla4007 same goes for liberals and the democrats... if you critize them you turn out to be an "racist" , "homophobe" and all that jazz
As a native Californian, trust me.......this was sugar-coated to death. This is the rated G version.
You guys keep voting for it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@pimpinaintdeadho No, they don’t actually. They vote for Democrats who oppose their own NIMBYism, like Newsom. All while voters clearly indicated their support for Proposition 13, for example.
Yeah. California is screwed
@@pimpinaintdeadho But they aren’t voting for Republicans?
@@jannguerreroWell put and coming from a former Californian I totally agree with the outlook that a lot of Californians are pretentiously contending for vanity and virtue signaling all of the time. Who is the coolest, or the most compassionate and "evolved" ... liberal Californians love to flex their perceived moral superiority and materialistic vanity. They've progressed so far apparently that their moral compass is completely upside down. The whole country has been looking at Cali like a Fallen Star ripe with elitist fascism. How many small businesses were strangled to death due to their draconian biofascist policies while the big corporations got to stay open?
Binya said "people aren't living their values". He's got it backwards: they are living their true values while espousing a completely different set of values.
Exactly
On point
Virtue signaling
Idk, what's your definition of values?
They tell you to live the opposite way they lived....
But really it's a class divide as usual.
I’m from beautiful state of California. I want say I’m in the middle but lean right. Because of the insane policies of our governor Gavin Newsom, California is a hot mess of homeless and criminals. Even my coworkers say he’s terrible and they are left leaning. So just want to say keep up the good work. ❤ your channel 🫡🇺🇸
This is the journalism that the NYT needs to produce more often
Its a good story. I am glad they ran it because its an under addressed issue. But its also really misleading. It misses that its Republicans allied with small coalitions of Democrats blocking the rest of Democrats from making reforms. I mean yes we should call out hypocritical Democrats. But its important to realize that greater numbers of Republicans support these policies than Democrats do.
@@peterisawesomeplease How does this mean the video is misleading? The base hypothesis is how democrats can and actively do block progress without the help of Republicans. The whole point of making it seems to be to call to light problems that progressives generally don't notice or refuse to acknowledge simply because they're too focused on how the Republicans are bad. It makes no sense to bring up the mechanics of how the Republicans block reforms in a video about how the Democrats block reforms. In fact, it completely obfuscates the point.
Let's say I was a young student and my homework was to write an essay about how dangerous Tigers are and how to avoid an attack. Do you think it would earn me marks to get to the third paragraph and be like: "Now, as you can see, Tigers are very dangerous. But, it turns out the Canadian Moose are even more dangerous!" And spend time talking about that instead? No. It has no bearing on what makes tigers dangerous or how to deal with them. In fact, I would hope that the tiger essay has no obfuscating points about how to protects yourself from Moose, because you may learn that it's safe to climb a tree to escape a tiger only to watch it claw its way up to you no problem.
In fact, there's all sorts of dangerous things left unmentioned in this hypothetical essay, that doesn't mean they're not dangerous. Sorry, I just find this to be such a vapid, useless form of dissent and I see it everywhere. "They didn't mention a point that I think is important, so they could've done better!" But the reality is that making such a point actually makes the video worse.
@iTips source? Have you seen New York State in the last 10 years? ""We're your source?" That's like saying "Where's the sun?"
@@LordLoveaDuck If it's that obvious I'd think you'd have absolutely no problem whatsoever producing one single source... but... you... didn't...
@@peterisawesomeplease exactly!
Wow! The NYT’s is criticizing Democrats now. Stuff’s getting real! 💪🏽
du du du dump du du dump.... the liberal family started..... protected from the harshness ..... .entitled and self-righteous ....... the Liberal family! ....du du du dump du du du dump
i know in paterson and jersey city, they spend 20-30k per student. wtf is this reporter reporting on?? the rich pay for this!!? the good schools spend much less per student. between 5-7k per student.
@ECOM.SCIENCE Still doesn't get around the fact that the rich pay the vast majority of the taxes. The progressive agenda is simply economic illiteracy, compounding by self undermining contradiction such as open borders, mass importation of dependents while complaining about housing wages and taxes.
I'm in favor of medium density housing. Just not in my backyard.
Well, tbf, their critique is that "Democrats arent being left wing enough"
The NYT run this? As a lifelong Democrat who has been screaming about this for 2 decades, I'm shocked that a corporate news publication has the guts to run with this. Good job on reporting actual news for a change, and please continue to do what you did here.
My thoughts exactly. I might actually get a subscription if they stuck to evidence based policy analysis instead of moderate golden mean nonsense.
"The guts" you explained the problem right there 🤣
So why would you still consider yourself a Democrat if you've seen that the people you support, who wield the power, don't do anything regarding the things you dislike?
they've shifted to communism, don't cheer your own genocide.
Dems, Republicans - they are all the same - look at the dems current efforts to repeal the SALT tax deduction - 100% of the benefit will go to the wealthy. It's all politics.
As someone who leans more liberal, I love that this video calmly and respectfully points out the flaws and weaknesses of democrats without being an all-out attack. Just rationally presenting facts and saying "look at this, *fix* it." Very well done, more journalists and people in the media and politicians need to be exactly like this. That would make it easier for everyone, regardless of their political views to hold themselves accountable and have an educated, balanced perspective.
and liberals will ignore it , demand more immigrants for cheap labour, then demand the immigrants live in republican areas.
Here's the thing. If you're "not living your values" they were never your values. They are things you would like to say you value, but what you actually do, defines your values. This is a perfect example of people wanting the appearance of virtue, without actually having to possess any.
Virtue signaling is the backbone of the Democratic Party
You've read your Machiavelli! :)
@@korhashamo Republicans aren't perfect on that front either.
@@reizayin Republicans are evil too but they're usually direct about it. Both of these corporate-sponsored parties are garbage. After 20 years of being a reliable blue vote, I'm done with both major parties. It's third party or bust for me.
@@korhashamo What he said at 0:51 pretty much nails it. The problem is that it isn't a fault of the two party system, here in Brazil we have multiple parties, but it always boils down to "us vs them", and it didn't take me long to realize that with a mindset like that, we won't really evolve much further as a species.
I like how they call this an "Opinion" piece, Yet they bring forth more facts and research than most "News" stations on both sides do for a story.
Because they have to back up their opinions with facts, but news goes over with no research for the fact of speed, thus fake or misleading news.
It's almost like the NYT is, still, America's premier journalism.
@@stongnyid I wouldn't go that far.
Except they left out all the progressive changes in Virginia that occurred after the Democrats gained full control of the state legislature in 2018. That would have been a better comparison of the stark difference between GOP "leadership" and actual Democratic governance.
@@icemachine79 I agree hopefully he will have a story where some good progressive programs have been implemented. But bottom line in California and New York liberal hyprocisy is horrifyingly damaging to low income minorities. To the point that the KKK just looks at the pounding racism of massive prison populations and horrible schools and thinks "how can they get away with that?'"
as a liberal myself this is actually true. I live in an extremely affluent suburb north of SF, and they're trying to build a 40-unit affordable housing building near the park down the hill from my house. But all the residents have been crying out against it, saying "I'm all for affordable housing, but not this project," and they continue to list the flaws of the project. We are a cookie cutter example of not in my backyard-ism.
It's understandable. If I bought a 5 million dollar home in a nice neighbourhood, I wouldn't want a project built near me. Maybe housing is a human right, but if you don't have any money, go live by a land fill, or get some money.
@@michaelgrimm2121 "Get some money" that would be much easier to do if they could actually afford to live in areas where good jobs are
@@michaelgrimm2121 based and cancerous
@@hc3657 🤣🤣🤣
@@michaelgrimm2121 when are people going to take responsibility for the children they bring into this world?
As a conservative, i can't help but respect this. Integrity is always a good look.
Ik same here. Finally someone makes fun of the left!
As a wise man once said: "Politicians are regarded as people who have learned to talk, but not to act."
Ah, but it isn't the politicians in this case, it's the people
we live in a period
nice pfp tho
From the video, it was made abundantly clear that the real problem lies with the voters who elect the politicians. But it's always easier to blame someone else, isn't it? I'm a Democrat, and although opposed to the idea of "not in my backyard" and the hypocrisy present in that mindset, I recognize that blame can't be placed solely on Republicans, that Democratic voters need to take responsibility for the laws and policies enacted, especially on the local, county, and state level where they enjoy heavy majorities.
I'm glad that this video exposes Democratic hypocrisy, I welcome the criticism, find it valid, but I think this video, despite a few sparse caveats, critically omits the inequalities in Republican majority states, towns, and districts. If a person is lower middle-income or poor, especially if a minority, it is my experience they generally fare far better where Democrats are in power than Republicans. This video also omits other forms of inequality and how Republicans at the national level and overall are the prime drivers of inequality. Most critically, it ignores how the GOP has abdicated its duty and responsibility to act as LOYAL opposition, instead descending into a fascist, nihilistic hyper-partisan cult. By failing to take into account the big picture, this opinion video fails to see the forest for the trees, which does the public a disservice.
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
@@wilywascal2024 >Gets criticized
>Immediately throws "whatabout" argument
lol
Would never expect the New York Times to have this kind of content
Just trying to get some credibility back after the way they covered the Trump presidency.
Red wave
@@sebastianleja370z Let's do a similar piece on Republicans and conservative states. I mean, you'd be fine with it, right?
Your name is very befitting
Don't worry they put this team on unpaid suspension. We'll resume our 12 hour marathon of Trump==Hitler tomorrow morning.
I love how this video isn’t really pro-conservative or really anti-liberal. The way it just points out the hypocrisy without saying that their ideals are wrong is phenomenal
They can't. They're the NYT. Reality MUST take a back seat to the narrative.
almost like there are other political leanings than just conservative and liberal
@@rick4580 You're right about one thing, Conservatives do not specifically want to use government to arrange for affordable housing and quality education. You Democrats have fooled yourself into thinking that your compassion without results is better than the Republicans' focus on good-economy-equals-good-everything (including but not limited to housing and education). The USA has better education than Angola not because of Democrats in the USA, but because of a great economy which was been championed and grown by the philosophy of the Right. In every single major political issue, Democrats oppose economic strength. Environment. Taxes. Spending. Entitlements. Lockdowns. Mandates. Everything always against the economy. Yet when there's not enough money to carry things out, they cry for more anti-economic, Leftist ideas. Because "displayed compassion" is better than actually helping people.
@@rick4580 Dude. Angola's stolen wealth by its corrupt leaders is not enough money to do any public service. Democrats stand in the way of all the reason the USA is a first world country. We're all lucky the current woke Democrat philosophy was not in power 200 years ago.
@@rick4580 Ole George wouldn't have fired somebody for saying there are two genders.
Wow. I can't believe this came from NYT.
Wow. Just wow. An actual investigative journalism piece. This is fantastic.
I don't trust NY Times.
Johnny Harris is great. NYT? Not so much.
@@FAITHandLOGIC hear hear
@@wandasewell4501Same, I believe they are switching there tone now because of the gigantic losses dems are facing across the country. Either way good video
The only way NYT would ever publish something like this is if it were coming from libs like the ones who made this video. Guarantee they wouldn’t publish an opinion piece that makes very similar points from the right. The right has been saying similar things for years, btw. I wish they’d have covered the homelessness, as well. They raise tons and tons of money for the homeless, but it’s just never even used for the homeless. Sure wish I knew what they really used that money for. 😑
I'm happy to see liberal media actually holding the liberals accountable, nice actual journalism!
Nyt is liberal? Lol. Not everything to the left of fox is liberal.
@@djdedan
Yes nyt is liberal not a leftist channel
This is about the rich in truth. Not so much 'liberals'. But you just stick to your silly 'beliefs'.
Never believed Liberal NYT would release something like this. But also probably why I didn't know about it until after 2 months.
It's an OpEd
It’s refreshing to hear criticism coming from people who are nominally on the same “side”. Instead of being venomous attacks, it feels more like a call to do better. This is what criticism should be.
And the call to do better isn't a virtue signal for brownie points within their circles either. People (especially the coddled and usually wealthy) need practice taking criticism so they can catch themselves hissing at mirrors and not crack during their personal plot twist in identity.
It comes down to "do as I say, not as I do"
More conservative and libertarian people have been saying this to the left for a long time, but instead of listening you just pawned it off as viscous attacks.
That is the only advantage real Americans have. Leftists require cult level obedience or they push you to Right Wing.
all of johnny harris's vids are incredibly non-attacking, informative and to the point, in this way.
2 Years later, couldn't be more correct and truthful.
You know it’s bad when NYT has to report on this
Yep same with USA illegal immigration. It took the border states sharing the load by filling busses and aircraft with people illegally crossing the southern border to the states who said it wasn't a problem, for them to finally admit it's actually a problem.
They just forgot to add the other side of the coin where the GOP is aright and all the propaganda they have been pumping into the pro-Dem and anti-Rep debate has lead to this.
Actually, I think someone was asleep at the editing desk and allowed this to slip by because John had professional capital. I doubt they’ll let it happen again.
NYT is a lot more centrist than they get credit for
@@ab3040 Not according to the extensive research conducted by Mark Levin. But I think they lean a little more left of center than they were about 20 years ago.
This was a breath of fresh air. Real honest journalism. Good job to everyone involved.
I do think it's really non-coincidental that they excluded New York from the video tho. New York has some major problems even more so than Washington for example and they didn't mention them at all. It really did seem like New York richie journalists attacking all the other blue states except our own type of piece.
You think this is journalism? Lol.
@@diptarkadas5193 Yes. A very well put together opinion piece.
Not journalism. Marxist propaganda. You should know this by now. This is why you and your fellow citizens are having to endure this exercise in remedial civilization. Apparently, all you have to do is a little rebranding and you can sell Marxism and communism to Americans now. Your foolishness is magnificent. There is a term for people like you but I would be CENSORED for typing it. So I will say that right now you are a useful person that does things without thinking.
@henk who me? paranoid? hardly. What is astounding is that people can't see it. Actually they can see it but they can't let themselves think about it. Furthermore, my opinion is hardly fringe.
Whatever you say. Sit back and watch the show. You'll come around the instant it comes home, I'm sure.
I'm blown away that this is coming from the New York Times... and it's refreshing.
I kept looking for the twist… but no, seems like someone is actually asking “are we part of the problem?’
@@nickhoffman4039 The twist is they labeled it "opinion", even though it's chock full of facts.
Yea they've made a good few things like this. Actually enjoyable. Look out for the opinion pieces, they are usually good.
@@curiousing good opinion is, of course, sustained by facts.
Yes, it's nice that NYT is pointing out leftist hypocrisy. But this video is still reinforcing and encouraging the leftist perspective.
I've almost forgotten what REAL journalism looks like from the big names in the game. Thank you for not only educating yourselves but all of us viewing this video on what's really going on in our country. I'd love to see more of this in the future.
They're just blaming the blue city disasters on people instead of democratic policies... Its a bait and switch. Zoning isn't the only reason housing isn't being developed in California, its regulations, particularly environmental regulations. I'm glad they're pointing out hypocrisy in the rich left. Also, there are a lot of inner city districts that get equal or more funding then their suburban counterparts, yet the suburban districts outperform the inner city districts. Simply throwing money at a problem wont' fix it.. Also, these kids underperform probably because they are just focusing on surviving in these dangerous communities. You know what predicts good educational outcomes better than school spending, family stability. Kids growing up in single family homes are way more likely to drop out of high school, get worse grades, etc etc.
@@travistarp7466 Bingo
You never gotten REAL Journalism. Media has been lying for decades.
Johnny and his team have ALWAYS maintained this level of impartiality and professionalism, check him out. Iz Harris is also super cool and makes top quality content!
PS I'm a fan and I will shamelessly plug them
YES
Coming from a progressive leftist, this kind of criticism of the American left is completely necessary. Continuing to just blame conservatives for everything that's wrong will not help anyone but liberals' egos. Good video!
Edit: No I am not a liberal or a democrat, I am well aware that is different from a progressive leftist. I'm not conflating these things, just pointing out something I see in both circles
will you still remain a progressive leftist? Knowing your supporting the exact opposite of the parties headlines, preachings?
@@DavySTUN You're looking at the beginnings of a red pill moment.
@@DavySTUN A leftist is very different from a democrat. Democrats are very mild conservatives lmao
@@DavySTUN Being a leftist does not equal being a big D Democrat.
@@TheKazzerscout "Being a leftist doesn't mean being a big D Democrat."
I'm sorry, I understand you may feel like you need to distance yourself from this. I'd like to point out some things (and I want you to understand I'm not coming after you, your beliefs, your political opinions or the merit of either.) This piece is underling something important that you may need to listen to. Areas that are primarily liberal leaning (or claim to be) don't hold up to those tenants of liberalism when it comes to their door. They want to claim these ideas, but never put the work in. Big D Democrats (not all but some) claim these ideas. Why?
Also, and this is just an aside for me, it's telling that "opinion" had to be plastered all over this video.
THIS PROBLEM NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!!!
But the solution can't affect me or my property value!
America in a nutshell........ And it's funny because John Oliver made a point, to point this out two days ago on Sunday when addressing the Power grid problem this country is facing......
What those homeowners don’t realize is that residential real estate sale appraisals are based on “sales of comparable real estate”. So their property values are not exactly affected by that affordable senior citizen apartment building. The appraisal of the properties that are adjacent to the apartments could be affected by the building, but the other houses in that neighborhood will have their appraisals adjusted if being compared with one of the adjacent houses.
Lol
Here in europe we have in average 10 parties, all them totally different. In USA you only have 2 far right wing parties choices to vote.
The analysis is false. The situation is really a tragedy of the commons: the Commons in this case being a real estate market. The winners are the developers; The losers are the owners of single-family dwellings who can’t afford the taxes that go up as developers imagine the opportunity to build multi family and dancer housing structures. The truth is that much of the homeless problem is an issue of mental illness and addiction. The rest of the homeless problem is in evitable as everyone wants to move to the same beautiful areas of the world. Do we really need to tear down the beautiful park like neighborhoods that everyone wants to live in just that that they can be turned into ghetto-like apartment buildings? I guarantee that if this happens the wealthier people will simply move out and the New tax base won’t be able to support the cities and their former glory
Good for the NYT. I've been explaining this to liberal friends for years.
The most amazing thing about this video is the comment section is absolutely loaded with both the left and the right coming together saying they want more journalism like this. They want more honesty like this. Why want more criticality like this.
Even more so, it's awesome to find Republicans, Democrats, Progressives and Libertarians all agreeing that they want more of this critical analysis done on 'their side' and that they all generally agree on wanting far better outcomes out've the system and government we elect as a whole. We all want the same things to some degree.
We are truly not as divided as the media makes us seem...
If only we could all turn off the media and talk to eachother, openly, we'd all realize this.
Amen to that. This piece has given me a lot of hope.
CNN should most definitely be held accountable though.
@@HenryBenedictUSA I've heard CNN is losing it's audience.
And that's a good thing.
They became too far left that they forgot they must balance things and must heard the right side without bias and ambiguous wordings.
As a conservative non-Trumper, I completely agree. The two party system has failed us all. This has spilled over into the media as all have noted. Our leaders on both sides are selfish narcissists, so far out of touch with the 80% in the middle that they can’t understand what the country needs. I don’t see our government changing, so we just get whiplashed every time there is a party change in power. There are no winners in this scenario. We all need to demand more from the politicians. I wish we could call them leaders but they don’t deserve that level of respect.
True. But they do it for different reasons. So I very much doubt it's a coming together of policies, at least.
I used to buy the NYT every morning on my commute to work in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They had real journalists back then. Welcome back to some semblance of honest journalism Gray Lady.
Yeah. Besides the time they covered up at least two genocides
China is now the richest country pverappsing USA wohoo
Everyone loves equality johnny, at a five mile distance from their home.
Better make it 10 miles...wouldnt want to hurt "property values"
The democrat party created the projects as part of their great society
Ahhh, the NIMBY's...
"Not in my backyard"
HasanAbi has been crying hypocrisy on both sides for months.
How about 500 mile distance? Not in the state or country they live in.
Fantastic, refreshingly honest journalism. This is what we need.
Im impressed that NYT actually put this out.
Same here. When I started watching this I thought I clicked on a satire video.
It's in the right direction because only self criticism will move society forward
Some More News is also a good news-channel.
As oppse to Fox?
@@slevinchannel7589 some more news isn't a mainstream news outlet, its a leftist commentary show.
Hope to see more of this type of journalism, it's honestly refreshing.
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Don't fall for it. Dems losing votes so media will turn in order to protect their bottom line. These media outlets should NEVER be given relevance or praise ever again.
@@ivotenotocensorship5247 amen.
gowatch ed earthling, even more evolve
you're happy to see it because it confirms your POV. #FuckTheMedia they will always play people against each other to make money.
I would actually pay for the NYT if this was the kind of journalism I could expect. Johnny Harris did an amazing job here.
Yes! I have tried a subscribtion to the NYT and this is normally not they kind of journalism they do. So even for $4/month I cancelled. But I'm happy to see this here. Great job here and I saved this to my favorites playlist.
You would never see this kind of opinion piece in a Rupert Murdoch owned media outlet.
This is an opinion piece. You just learn the difference God
@@LSPalm drs. give medical opinions all the time…professional opinions are usually a narrative posited by an expert that is informed by the relevant facts.
Honestly, that some people think there’s no more nuance to fact and opinion than the basics they learned in third grade really explains a lot about the hole humanity has found itself in.
yep - white liberals are the absolute worst. they only favor and look out for fellow whites while virtue signaling and patting themselves about how much they care about minorities. as a minority plenty of us are waking up to left wing bs.
This was a refreshing piece of journalism. When I read the title, I had to click just to see whether the New York times would actually run something critical of blue states. Very well done, and as a life long resident of Western Washington, I approve of the content and it's 100% accurate. Seattle used to be a beautiful place to live, until Californians started selling their houses for huge amounts of money, and coming here to buy up prime real estate. Sad thing is they have now turned the state that they came to take advantage of into a duplicate of the place they left.
Californians do that to every single city/ state they move to. Denver and the surrounding area is a prime example. It's unrecognizable compared to what it was as recently as the 90's.
"If you're poor... just be rich"
- California
Lol that's could be said by a lot of groups. That's also the motto of the GOP and all liberal elites who don't want to pay taxes.
"If you're consuming a lot...Pay your fair share of taxes"
- NESARA
lol
California public policy is a big factor as to why housing is so expensive there. They have some of the strictest zoning laws in the country and were representative of a disproportionate rate of overvaluations and subsequent mortgage defaults.
@@SimGunther the way to so that is to transition from income taxes to consumption tax.
A national sales tax is far more fair to everyone, you pay the government based on what you spend instead of what you earn.
Yes NYT. This is what real journalism is like! Criticize both sides, be unbiased, and show evidence
Between this, and Weinstein, this is the NYT's best work in recent history.
@@Hitmarkerdidnothingwrong This "opinion" piece cited and sourced more facts than a Bob Woodward exposé.
Criticize both sides? He barely touched on the red states. And there was nothing unbiased about this.
@@ChrisZahrte This dude is definitely a liberal. He didn't need to touch on any conservative points in this video because it isn't about them, every one of these points is something that conservatives already oppose. This is meant to be a wake up call for the liberals
@@Dr4gon2000 I agree. I am absolutely fine with other liberals and progressives calling out our politicians, especially with this kind of research. Republicans definitely don't have a leg to stand on, but this is absolutely needed!
I’m genuinely impressed the New York Times would publish something like this. Well done.
They probably don't realize what they published.
@@Nareimooncatt 🙄
@@erik-victory its true don't roll your eyes
They still kept out funding (taxpayer dollars) going to other governments for war or apartheid.
How do most of you guys make so much wealth, I'm just curious about the whole process. I still haven't figured out what to invest in yet.
Somebody once told me "It costs you more to be poor." 🤯
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@@aaron32118Please educate me. I've come across this name before. Now I am interested. How can I reach her?
@@AlbrechtEikeShe's mostly on FACE-BOOK , using the user name 👇.
“Housing is a human right! We need more affordable housing!*”
*“As long as it’s not in my neighborhood.”
What do you expect from millionaires who preach about open borders, gun control, and climate change while taking private jets to work from their gated communities surrounded by armed guards. It's time to wake up and see who the real bourgeoisie are in America.
George Carlin coined it as “NIMBY” “Not In My Backyard”
“Immigrants and refugees have rights! Not accepting them is akin to murder!”
*”Just don’t send them to my neighborhood.”
Bingo..
@@benjamin8459 lol. Funniest is when they preach open borders while living in gated communities.
Now this is called journalism. Asking questions to the powerful, whoever that is.
@chabingsta 🥴
@chabingsta sorry you must be lost, this isn't facebook
@chabingsta how is pointing out hypocrisy pulling liberals further left you sausage
@@SuperBuster3000 These are criticisms to the democrats from the left, that's how.
@@abdmzn So only other parties can criticize each other? Democrats/Republicans can't acknowledge their own faults?
Judging by the comment section, it seems most of us are done with the current two party system. Two sides of the same coin. Excellent reporting on NYT's part!
From the other side of the Atlantic, it seems all too clear that money dominates the political system in the US. The candidates with biggest bank balances get elected, and it appears that the older the better as well. Here your two parties would be considered Right Wing (Reps) and Centrist (Dems). There is no real left wing in America, i.e. someone who would start building affordable housing and putting into place genuine schemes to help poorer folk, as well as providing a proper national health service.
@@carlgrove8793 You're right that money dominates US politics but I don't believe there is any existing government that this isn't largely true for.
@@bignasty389 In the UK it is undeniable that most Tory politicians have gone to Eton or Harrow and come from very privileged backgrounds. However, quite a few Labour leaders haven't and although all MPs earn a lot of money in their job few are what would be considered rich in the US. There are also fairly strict rules about MPs earning extra money by capitalising on their status, they have to declare all their financial interests.
not really.
@@carlgrove8793 Switzerland
It’s partly our fault for not demanding better. When things are plodding along and it’s not a constant dumpster fire we’re happy to just keep the status quo.
Everybody is progressive until they're even mildly inconvenienced
Middle class suburbanites in a nutshell
They wanted to ban plastic bags where I live. My mom was like "No plastic bags, at all?" I said "Mom, but if it's bad for the environment..." and she voted in favor of it. So yeah, not true.
Everyone is conservative about what they know best, their personal lives
@@futurestoryteller lmao cool story
@@SouthJerzVillains I seem to be missing the part where proving somebody wrong needs to be impressive.
"I want to fix this problem"
"Ok so take on this burden"
"No".
The NIMBY plague
Hey! from France.
Good luck with your strikes and take care of each other to be able to hold longer,
you gonna need it even more as they just gutted the "reconciliation" bill to rebuild the USA.
But if you want to be noticed you can do a "casserolade", it's an old french "recipe" to make some noise.
I don't talk about cuisine, I talk about an old way to protest in the street to make noise and/or music
with a pan or a saucepan and spoons made of wood. It's quite festive. ;-)
Hi from France and here is a smarter way to pray... just kidding, to think:
Don't ask yourself if you have good reasons to think what you think (confirmation bias) but
rather ask yourself if you have bad reasons to believe what you are so confortable to think.
In a nutshell, the way of the lawyers versus the way of the good scientists. ;-)
Bad takes like this is why there's an issue in the first place. Having low income families living in your neighbourhood is not a "burden".
Exactly. They take no action.
@@america1754 Not all "NIMBY's" are the same. I don't agree with continually building high-end, luxury housing, when there is clearly a much greater need for low-income, and very low-income housing. Most folks incomes don't fall into the upper class, or upper middle class bracket. Greed and overt political corruption are ruling society now.
This is what actual journalism looks like. If the NYT ever wants to be taken seriously again, keep doing pieces like this.
Yeah, Johnny Harris is great.
They do plenty of serious reporting. People just don't pay attention to it.
@Welcome to Clown World! The profit motive and insular nature of political elites as upper class people and those working around them also being upper class people explains most of everything.
no but he was one of them few years ago was pushing mass illegal immigration intom the west , this guy is a hypocrite him self, was pushing misinformation 4 yerars the irony
All you did was look at the title. Half the housing problem in California (which was half his thesis) is because people want to live in state with such a good economy and the housing system can't keep up with demand.
This is a great piece. Serious props for putting aside your personal politics to get to the truth of the matter - that’s REAL journalism that the muckrakers would be proud of. I’d be very interested to see a parallel piece on states where Republicans have all the power.
This is incredible, and honest. Journalism needs this, as a whole. Thank you to the producers!
When Malcolm X and MLK Jr criticized the white liberal, this kind of analysis was also their vantage point. The hypocrisy, the blatant classism, rhetoric without substance, etc.
This is an ironic claim because the original quote is "white moderate", not white liberal. And it's probably convenient for you to misremember it as such, because the moderates are less NIMBy than the people on the "real left" who are more likely to oppose a affordable housing construction.
People hailed as some sort of working class heroes by the political outsider crowd (think Bernie and friends) have opposed construction of affordable homes over made up "gentrification" fears, or complaining about "neighborhood character" like (robert reich did).
This extends all the way to pop culture figures who like to posture themselves as anti mainstream (recently Dave Chappelle who specifically opposed just the affordable part of a construction project near his home).
Or take the case of a columbia professor who likened an affordable housing contruction to colonialism because, get this, it was gonna built in place of a private dog park.
Now-a-days its the moderate who can be trusted to support the pragmatic solution, hear and now.. rather than make infinite purity tests and fault every solution like the "real left'.
@@psd993 no they said white liberals one google search will prove you wrong 💀 lemme guess ur a white “liberal” like the people in this vid describe???
You're correct, but i hope you understand that these criticisms are coming from a leftists perspective, not a conservative one.
I wish I have heard every word Malcolm X had said when I first immigrated in this country.
It's a front. Compassion in these people are just a false emotion to the onlookers in order to be seen as good.
Everyone is a bleeding heart until it becomes a "not in my back yard" moment. If you are going to be selfish, at least be honest about it.
Yep. I saw something about homelessness, and it changed my view on it. I have come to the conclusion that I would much rather look out my window and see a homeless shelter, or some type of assistance or charity, than look out my window, and see a homeless camp.
underrated comment. it's actually the root of many of our problems today
I'm not a bleeding heart. But I have helped numerous friends with a roof when they needed. I would not help a felon . Who would get away with it tho.. in case you don't know .. illegal immigration is a felony...
@@tobiasreaper3650 Go check out the piece on homelessness in Salt Lake City UT; or lack thereof. They actually went through the effort to do a Cost Benefit Analysis and found putting homeless in apartments was cheaper than letting them be on the streets/shelters. AND here's the best part, once the homeless got stable housing, they were able to get Jobs and become productive members of society instead of a drain. Seattle, Denver, LA; homelessness is rampant despite being "Progressive Liberal Cities".
It is FREE to reach down and pick up a piece of trash on the sidewalk or side of the road. I live in a nice neighborhood, but still, people throw trash out of their car window as they drive by. So my family picks up any trash that lands on our yard. I did the same WHEN I WAS RENTING. If people don’t want to live surrounded by trash, why not start by picking it up? Why expect someone else to do it? Have some pride in where you live, whether you own it or not. Poverty is largely a mindset. I know, because my family started out with nothing and rose above.
Thank you for all of the work you put to this. The education you share is more valuable then gold.
I live in Palo Alto, and this is exactly what happens. the people here pretend to be “left wing” however as soon as the policies that help the people they “fight for” interfere witg their lives in any way, its a no. liberal hypocrisy is extremely real
I think this boils down to a rich ppl problem than a liberal/conservative issue
@@justinlane1768 Then why are all these problems specifically occurring in liberal states, as the video clearly showed?
@@viljamtheninja Maybe I didn't watch the video close enough, but I'd bet money that these same issues occur in less liberal areas. Reality is that most high income areas tend to be liberal. I'm sure if you found some red states with similar high income neighborhoods, you'd see the exact same things represented here.
@@justinlane1768 The high income areas are only liberal in liberal states. Do you think conservative states don’t have high income areas? Because the high income areas around where I’m from is mostly conservative.
@@jessicakimbrell4124 and do these types of issues persist in your area?
“It seems that people aren’t living their values”
And the understatement of the year award goes to…
Yep, in a "Christian" country theres nowadays no Discipline, Integrity, Morals, and Ethics. Now its all about choice and those who make their OWN choices get the outcomes they get.
They certainly aren’t voting their “values”
@@tougeruzbay America is NOT a Christian country. Antarctica is more of a Christian country.
Run run see liberal run when being sued for slander nyt ua-cam.com/video/hmRc4xtnhco/v-deo.html
@@privacyandfreedom5344 Just because you don't like Christians, that doesn't mean that America isn't still a Christian country. America is bigger than you and your mates.
When you report real news, you’re the friend of the people.
Politics became less polarized in the last months, I ask myself why
@@contrariobastian4046 not an election year
@@Shanecohen true but the NYT would not do this neither 2-3 years ago, they where focused in the media war against the Republican Party or am I wrong?
see the issue is people are selective.
@@contrariobastian4046 i mean that comment isnt wrong i totally agree, but i was replying to why the media is less polarizing the past couple months. it gets SUPER polarized during elections. also nowadays the average american knows the media is complete BS. they have to build their reputation back up maybe?
Thank you NYT for this transparency, which people need to see
Long story short: "We want society to be more equal, but not in my back yard."
more like: "...but not if it will cost me money"
Nimbys
This attitude is pretty endemic at the moment and I honestly can't understand how people live with the cognitive dissonance all the time.
@@orlandogastonchandleraziz9855 Carlin🙂
@@LoneWolf-rc4go Easy to talk but not easy to bet your money on it.
This really was a breath of fresh air and a great move in the right direction for journalism. REAL journalism, calling out liars regardless of what their tweets or signs say.
that's why I love Johnny Harris. if you spend any time watching his stuff his political leanings are very clear but he isn't at all afraid of calling out those who claim to share the same values. it's exactly what this world and america in particular needs more of
@@arseface2k934 I dont like his channel too much because he sometimes leans too far into presenting sponsorships as facts (his stakeholder video), but I think this is a good video, I already have heard about all of it but it's a good video nonetheless showing the flaws in the american electoral system with unequal representation for ideas that are alternative to the capitalist norm
Ironically, the video is labeled as "Opinion." Strange how we've come to perceive that as the best journalism.
@@briaryos1 it’s weird that he calls it opinion then he goes on stating all kinds of facts. This way more factual than anything you’ll hear on cable news where it’s 2% facts 98% opinions being said as if they were facts
@@crowdedveins9210 Yes, you're right. I can't watch cable news anymore -- left or right, it doesn't matter. Too much gamesmanship and posturing; not enough consideration of opposing points of view.
im speechless. an actual look into what the issues are and then give some reason and evidence behind it. well done.
lol. democrats are a bunch of hypocrites and don't deserve votes. a lot of Americans have been saying that for years.
@@surveyorsairinc2166 Woah there, dont point fingers thats how we got into this mess
@@lukescholz1 Just saying what the video is proving. :)
It's an interesting subject, but ultimately mediocre in it's conclusions. Democrats say they are for one thing, but are actually for another. Shocking I tell you, shocking.
Washington's tax code no longer looks like that because they passed a tax increase in May of this year. So either this video was not published on Nov 9th (so earlier than May), or this guy is misleading on his points.
It's why you should always fact check rather than become "speechless".
Crazy watching almost 3 years later. I wish I was laughing at how crazy it could've gotten
As a former resident of Cook County, Chicago, I can attest that this is exactly the case. The difference in schooling - quality, teachers, resource allocation, safety - is shocking. Public school education is a joke and has been for decades.
it's better tho. More taxes, more benefits.
Can I ask, why did (did they?) residents there vote to have the county be divided up into smaller school districts?
It's really sad! I interviewed for a grant writing job at Chicago Public Schools and when they explained how the funding worked in Cook County I immediately knew I would not school my kid(s) in the district.
And don't get me started on the power the Chicago Teacher's Union has...
@@UraraHopeT16842 I think you have the lifecycle backwards. The Chicago suburbs inside of Cook county, having developed their own high-quality town-only school system, then refused to join Chicago. The author's use of "gerrymandered" is bogus here because it implies some sort of intention to those boundaries.
@@arielpeterson8773 I'm not exactly sure but I'm guessing money. The CPS system has 4 or 5 tiers with charter and magnet schools being at the top. The most selective schools also have the highest performances and families with the most income.
As a Californian who is not a democrat or a republican, this is 100% accurate. The nimbyism here is outrageous.
It would be awesome if you, as someone who is aware of this, would actively go to these meetings and fight this! Go you!
@@t0ysoldier18
Doesn't even matter how much you vote or come out in force
They'll fortify the election with newly uncovered votes conveniently found in a high enough amount days or weeks after counting
*Loads shotgun*
Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat you're right it doesn't matter.
All that matters is you stay where you are and don't leave.
@@k_tess NIMBYism is the perfect term for all of this. As for the housing issues in CA, perhaps there are just too many people living there in the first place? Lest we forget, SoCal is a desert after all and you can't stack millions of people in a desert and not expect to have problems. There are almost 40 million people living in the state with LA County hosting over 10 million (according to the US Census). I'm originally from CA but I moved away in 1995 when I joined the military. Every time I come back to visit (about every 3 years), I'm blown away on how crowded it is. Yet, I never hear about the issue of a bloated population and they're talking about building MORE HOUSING. Freeways will have to be 8 lanes in each direction. It will end up being like Mega City 1 in Judge Dredd.
@@commisaryarreck3974 now you don’t really believe that? The person who was in charge of the election in the last administration said it was the most secure election this country has had.Ask yourself, why in the last election it was suddenly fraud when in elections past there were none? A person with no integrity crying foul? Best beware of that person.
I never thought I would see a title like this from NYT. Definitely a step in the right direction for journalism.
Not sure if you intended it, but the pun you created with step in the right, as in correct direction, and right, as in conservative, is pretty cool. Good job
Sir the title is very misleading. The content of this video is a far-left critique of centrist Democrats. NYT went from criticizing conservatives to criticizing their own dems for not being progressive enough. Really strange and interesting marketing technique lol
Yo yo yo homie fo' sho'!
Yeah it is a shock to see the NYT have a left-leaning critique of the status quo. Usually they are a right wing rag.
@@insertchannelnamehere8685 I think you're missing the theme here. This video isn't a conservative critique of liberalism. It's a liberal critique of liberals. They're basically saying liberals aren't liberal enough.
I can't believe that UA-cam actually suggested this video to me. I'm also surprised this video hasn't been taken off the UA-cam platform. Great journalism right here.
I'm other words these people are saying..."I'm for affordable housing....just not within 25 miles of my street"
Excellent synopsis.
Not even then. Progressives are the worst hypocrites. If more housing is built anywhere it will lower their house value. They are Champaign socialists.
Its worse than that though. People who own investment properties that are rented out, far out of their own neighborhood are out of reach for the poor. Nobody wants to rent to the poor.
the thing is, affordable housing is fine, but you need to run it well and be very proactive to not turn neighborhoods into slums, and that also inherently means you don't just churn out gated wealthy communities.
It's a very delicate balancing act. Which is NOT what the federal, or even most local, government can achieve.
Yep
"When someone tells you that they 'agree with you in principle.'
What they are saying is that they have no intention of carrying out any action in practice." -- Otto Von Bismarck.
this is a joke, right💀 not otto von bismarck😭
@@sp691 No, it is from him.
Considered, by many, to be one of the pillars of "pragmatic" politics.
Weird, can you send me a link from where you found the quote? Cant seem to find it when I search it up. The content of it makes sense, considering his realpolitik philosophy - I just thought the wording to me more modern I suppose
@@sp691 Apparently, I paraphrased. Fading memory. Exact quote is, unsurprisingly, much better (though it wasn't too hard to find ..)
"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
Based Bismarck
"house the homeless, but not in my neighborhood"
-California
-Everywhere.
I lived on a street with 80-90% virtue signal sign ("in this house we....") coverage. A local moonbat was pushing for a homeless camp to be in the park nearby and our street facebook group exploded with discussion about why it is not a good idea and should be elsewhere etc. A conservative pointed out it was residents of another area pushing for it to be by us. Can't make this stuff up.
California isn't inundated with homeless because of housing. The homeless are coming to California for the same reason they are going to Seattle: They can camp on the street, buy drugs easily, use drugs openly, defecate on the street, and steal from businesses without fear of repercussions. There is a reason Walgreens is closing some of its stores in the Bay Area.
Doesn't help that other states literally funded one-way bus tickets to offload some of their homeless to CA...
NIMBY's
Here in europe we have in average 10 parties, all them totally different. In USA you only have 2 far right wing parties choices to vote.
"I'm all for equality as long as it doesn't impact me or mine or my neighborhood"
I respect this piece of journalism. I wish both sides would be willing to look in the mirror more often and hold themselves accountable instead of always pointing the finger at "them."
That's all the left does with identity politics. Look at yourself
Conservatives see the hypocrisy of republicans. The left will never see the hypocrisy of the democrats - which is 100x worse.
@@smokingcrab2290 Nope. Humans don't see their hypocrisy. And idiots trying to claim one is better than the other are the worse kind of hypocrites.
@@MoHiker69 where tf did this guy say that
@@89Valkyrie You're insinuating that you're better than the "worst kind" so you're being a hypocrite yourself.
A step in the right direction. Good job, Johnny and NYT.
@David Wang
Dictatorship 🙄
You are everything that is wrong with this country
@David Wang Are you kidding me? Biden is far more of a dictator than Trump ever was. You nutcases were painting him as a dictator before he was even in office, before he did a single thing. That was the lie you painted from the start and like a dog with a bone you refuse to let it go.
This is fantastic journalism. I hope this becomes more than a simple "gotcha" against liberals and people on all sides can evaluate whether their actions line up with their purported values.
Yeah, I would imagine that there's similar stuff in every corner of the political environment. Gotta love climate change activists using planes, and while I can't think of anything relating to republicans contradicting their statements, I also do not pay close attention to politics on my own (a friend of mine mentioned the climate change thing) and can't be bothered to go look for any instances right now.
@@YellowSkarmory this might be naive, but I think if everyone focused more on improving the people around them at an individual level, it would solve a lot of the problems that come up in politics. The big battles remain important, but I'm trying to live by the idea that we're never going to be able to care for our country if we cannot first care for the person in front of us.
@@danielmulder4822 have you heard of Jordan Peterson? He talks says to clean your room before you try to change the world.
@@dabbking Yeah and he said that while on a serious benzo addiction and needed to be hospitalized.
@@frbe0101 yeah you don’t really listen to Peterson do you?
NYT? Are we sure? I can't believe this hypocrisy is being called out. Thank you, sir. THIS IS JOURNALISM!!
When Johnny Harris shows up you know there’s going to be a map.
lmao true
He might as well be part of Map Men
Everbody gangsta 'til Johnny pulls out a map
He loves his maps almost as much as he loves starring into my soul
I miss borders
"I think people aren't living their values."
Incorrect, they are living their values. They just lie about what their values actually are to signal how good they want people to think they are.
Excellent point. Pretty much characterizes a majority of our society.
Point is more or less the same though, that we are a nation of hypocrites.
@@jameslebron2403 Well, the Blue half maybe.
The reds are just open about their views on the hard decisions. Except when they contradict themselves...oh wait hang on a tick...
This gentleman is spitting
@@marcusyoung2870 The best down to earth people I met don’t come from rich families
There’s no such thing as “not living our values.” If you aren’t living them, they aren’t your values. They are just talking points that help you feel better about not actually living them.
THIS
Absolutely spot on
Yeas and no. Some cricumstances do have a larger control over you.
If you're for example broke and untalented, you might have to work in an industry, that kills you from the inside (doing stuff against you inner moral compass). Just to survive.
100
Not a bad point.
This much honest inquiry from the New York Times? I'm astonished.
The “equal opportunity but not in my backyard” attitude of wealthy liberals. I grew up around that. I’m actually from district 39 in Cook county that the video mentions.
I'm from Connecticut which he also mentions in the video and the state is EXACTLY like that. Literally a poor side and a Uber rich side. I illegally went to a wealthier high school to avoid the one falling apart in my neighborhood. We got caught though and sent back. The disparity between rich and poor is so stark
I find it to be true of wealthy people regardless of their political affiliation.
I had an internship for cook county that involved a lot of walking around through those neighborhoods. My co worker was black…and we got the police called on us several times that summer because we “looked suspicious” despite having construction vests AND a county vehicle, and these were those rich liberal neighborhoods where every other house had a BLM or Pride flag out front.
It's not a wealth thing, it's a narcissist thing. Everything is all well and good with ideology, especially if it garners virtue, until it impacts the narcissist negatively. Narcissists don't understand thinking outside of their perspective and how it would effect them in their own shoes.
@@chrish7308 Our capitalist competition has driven us to grotesque individualism.
More unbiased actual journalism like this and ill consistently tune into NYT's opinion pieces.
MIchael Unbiased? LOL It's 100% propaganda for the elimination of private property.
@@cattycorner8 You've completely lost the plot bud. this entire video centers around the fact educational funding and other essential funding and resources are being withheld from those in desperate need of it by using tax codes. Tax codes voted in by the same people that preach for equality and diversity in their communities. I must have missed the part of the video you are talking about, go ahead and time stamp where they talk about the elimination of private property for me.
I'll Isle
@@cattycorner8 Tell me you didn't watch the video without watching the video
i was under the impression nyt already aligned more with progressives. why would them criticizing the democrats be anything new? they just dont criticize them during election years. lol.
My friend in Chicago lied about his address by pretending to live with a family friend so he could get into a good high school. He ended up going to an Ivy league and is very successful but wouldn’t have had half the opportunity if he hadn’t advocated for himself as a child and “snuck” into a better school
What's even worse, if the school district had caught on to the deception, they might have sue the parents or even file criminal charges.
Sounds like he would have benefited from the republican led school voucher program.
@@ViolentKisses87 I think you underestimate the quantity of people that actually get to attend programs. Not many.
How much in debt is your friend?
My niece used grandmas address to go to the tony high school in her neighborhood. Had to lie about it all four years, had to be driven by mom back and forth, never had a friend from school over, but she got a far better education without gangs.
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS?!?
I almost can't believe my eyes that this story was actually done. Hopefully people actually are able to see the blatant hypocrisy that's right in front of them.
I think the story is less about pointing the hypocrisy finger (because that's a never ending feud for everyone), and more about actually questioning how your actions align with your values and not listening to politicians telling you to blame the other side.
genuinely connot believe this many people dont understand systems. At 5:56 he explains how in a DEMOICRATIC state, they voted for compact affordable housing, THEN, a neighbour hood RE voted to change it to big houses. THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, probably wasn't democratic. So why did he blame this on the party? When the democrats are the reason it was made an option in the first place. EVERY single one of his points leaves out important system lines.
@@k.c.9900 HUGE. Pointing the finger is how we got into this mess! I have no clue how the finger pointing can be stopped!
This isn't hypocrisy, there's "opinion" written all over. They're entitled to be pretty loose on facts and provide a mediocre piece of investigation.
Opinion, not story.
I was NOT expecting this at all, well done to everybody involved! Here’s to hoping real journalism is back on the table
Can't wait for the NYT next video: Orange man perhaps not as bad as originally thought
@@VotePaineJefferson you missed the point of the video
Yeah just hope he disables the drive control on his car's computer or he might do a Michael Hastings.
Haha in your dreams buddy, this is just a one off from These fools.
@@dumdude1083 No colonel Sanders you're wrong. Momma's right.
Thank you New York Times for having the guts to upload this, it is so very true. We live in a "I'm a good person" era, where showing to your friends on IG, FB or Linkedin that you're a good person, but when it comes to taking action they don't do it.
yes, I think people underestimate how much of an underlying (and overt) impact social media has had on creating this beast. People are putting themselves in these mind-warping skinner box rat races where everyone's comparing themselves to each other and it's driving envy and pride in many people. Unsurprisingly these people may be severely mislead and have their judgement impaired.
They are about to go out of business, and they see how many views honest people like Russell Brand and Joe Rogan get (not saying I'm a fan or agree with them on everything but at least they're honest unlike Dems).
The effect on education is prevalent everywhere if we’re being truly honest. Much more of a rich vs poor rather than dem vs rep. As a conservative you made some excellent points but the system truly is keep the rich rich, and keep the poor down and fighting amongst ourselves. Why can’t they just rewrite the tax code to 15% across the board, no loopholes, no easy tax evasion if you know the codes, a one tax for all and an enhanced focus on how that money is put back into our communities
A critique of the liberals coming from progressives? This is what we need right now. Thank you New York Times.
Edit: I don't know if Johnny Harris is progressive, but the argument seems to be coming from a left-wing perspective
@G G I'm not sure about where Johnny Harris stands politically. He seems like a "radical centrist" who is more interested in good old fashioned investigative journalism targeting the powerful. He left the Mormon Church as a young adult, so he's clearly a very critical, questioning person who's less interested in dogma and more in finding truth. The critique in this video, however, is very similar to the kind that progressives make against hypocritical wealthy liberals (I say as a progressive who likes to criticize hypocritical wealthy liberals). The only issue I take with it, however, is how there is no delineation between progressive/activist/leftist circles, who have been calling out blue state hypocrisy for years, and the liberals that this video rightly calls out. Like the right, the left is not a monolith, perhaps even moreso if the perennial meme about "leftist infighting" is anything to go off of.
@@vitaminluke5597 good analysis, and I agree with you
@@vitaminluke5597 shocked to find a good take in UA-cam comments
Palo alto is not a very liberal place at all. To center half your video about that one case and then gloss over the fact that they banned single family zoning as a minor ‘step forward’ is a joke.
@@xiaoka woah woah. I just got to that part in the video, I need to look this up because that's huge
"You cannot say you are against inequality in America unless you are willing to have affordable housing built in your neighborhood." - Great quote and this really demonstrates a big part of the issue. A lot of people want "equality" until it affects them... Great video, I'll definitely recommend this for others to watch.
Where I live, I wish we had more affordable housing. And I mean like, in my backyard. We need the housing. We don't need elitist seggregationists.
This is a tough one, because I totally understand wanting to preserve the feel of a loved community, but that doesn't give the excuse to just leave people without housing. There has to be a compromise here. It doesn't have to be elitism to want to preserve a community, but when you use that as an excuse to not care for the poor then it absolutely is.
Equal opportunity =/= Equal outcome. These are very different, but are being conflated.
That quote is actually utter hogwash.
@@spamdump4459 Why is that?
Huh. This is actual journalism…. It’s refreshing
Journalism: agrees with me
@@tommy8982 revisiting this video, saw this comment. Unsure what it is meant to mean, especially considering the video explicitly lays out the exact ideology & policy that is causing many, many Americans to struggle to live somewhere. Both sides share blame.
The thing about your comment is: nowhere in my comment or on my profile do I say what “side” I am on, or what opinion I have. You don’t know if I am one way or another, I simply found the video “refreshing” to watch as it doesn’t just pander or make excuses for what is causing these housing problems. You made an assumption and made a majorly conceited, and equally narrow-sighted, remark. I feel sorry for you.
"I love poor people, I just don't want them living anywhere near me."
-- Champagne liberals
and by poor, they mean minorities.
This is 100% correct
Wrong title. It's limousine liberals, champagne socialists and gulfstream environmentalists.
@@stachowi Oh, I think that includes all the poor, regardless of race. Can you really imagine poor whites being welcome there? The really poor some call "white trash"? No way would they want those people either.
So you would rather the rich people not be pushing for policies that would be helping the poor? I'm not really sure how people are trying to draw such a distinct hypocrisy because poor areas are typically higher rates of crime, correct?
This has aged well
exactly my thoughts
Yep very interesting today.
Like a fine wine 🍷
🍷🍷
Saw you post and realized this was clip was 2 years ago!
Aged well indeed.
This was really good. As a New York resident of 3 years I’m confused when “progressive” city council leaders and state leaders still can’t get any real movement on housing , homelessness, or education in a place like bed stuy.
Because creating a culture of dependency well suits the Democrats to keep winning elections while throwing a few morsels of toward the marginalized, especially to the African American community. Tried and tested way to grab power.
@@meengla that's a great example of the opposite of what is happening. Wealthy countries spend money to improve the outcomes of the citizens in the most desperate situations because it benefits all of society and saves money. The USA does this less than most peer countries and democrats cater to voters who want to improve society but then don't do it (for many reasons - mostly $ in politics). In the places they could, the people benefitting(the privileged) don't actually want to change anything.
@@ph1am Maybe Democrats, as this video clearly implies, don't really want to 'improve'? If so then 'real change' would be happening. Maybe because the downtrodden in America are mostly of visible minorities unlike in other rich, more homogenous countries??
@Baby Hunn I was a Democrat as well until I found out that Democrat Party just wanna our votes and slave us
@@meengla the Democratic party is a con and has no reason to change anything. Dem voters generally want things to change but they don't want to be the first to sacrifice something. The 2 party system serves the financial corporate elite. The con isn't providing a social safety net - - it's keeping labor dependent on a rigged marketplace because there isn't one. The company's will exploit you and hold your children's health hostage and that's if you can make it into the walled garden of corporate employment with benefits.
I was stunned when I saw that this was from NYT and not the NYP
"We want to help the poor ... I mean, we want other people to help the poor, but not us".
Well that’s socialism’s in a nut shell
We want the poor to be helped, but WE don't want to help the poor.
@@joshuatift4640 its really really not.
And, "We'll help the poor, as long as they're kept far away from my neighborhood."
@@AvgJane19 yes it is