One can be correct and have an opinion at the same time. They're not the same thing.
Even if you don't agree with an opinion, that doesn't make it wrong. You may be even more biased the other way.
If you are not correct, then your opinion is not worth very much. See: birthers, anti-vaxxers, chemtrails, intelligent design, faked moon landing conspiracists etc.
Blaming Prop 13 is silly. Look at the rest of the state, housing prices are relatively sane in places like san diego, and downright cheap in the inland empire, orange copunty, anaheim, etc etc.
Oh, all those places have to deal with Prop 13 as well.
San Francisco(and the bay area overall) has consistently chosen to restrict their supply for housing for years. Obviously this would culminate into higher prices in the future, but to many people live in denial. They would rather pretend that AirBnB is the real problem, or that Prop 13 is distorting the market(but of course, rent control is not rolleyes)
Of course Prop 13 is distorting prices. It affects all kinds of things. It limits the revenue stream of local governments, causing them to do things like encourage big box store development to get more sales tax. Prop 13 has tons of unintended consequences. Or maybe its framers knew exactly what they were doing.
I ALSO think rent control and airbnb distorts prices too. The Airbnb threat maybe overblown, who knows, but airbnb has maintained in the past they have no way of telling cities how many customers they. Databases are hard I guess.
Because the only way someone can be intelligent, is if they wasted 5 years of there of life, not working, but reading old theories and academic papers that don't line up with the reality we actually live in?
I'll rather save 100k and listen to the blowhard on the radio, than be in debt and listen to the blowhard on a podcast.
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On that basis I am sure I could find people with in any group who are, for instance, racist, bigoted etc quite easily. The question is not: are there some people who have this or that view or belief.
Or do you excuse your PC friends when they call these people mean words, because you agree with them?
Every 4 years My "PC" friends almost unanimouisly call republicans rednecks and nazi's and bigots, fascists, and rapists, etc etc etc. Why is it impossible for people to think that after so many years of that, those people get angry.
Even in this thread, trump supporters are called racist, because they want to restrict immigration.
Wait! Trump's pronouncements are prejudiced. Its not just "restricting immigration." Everyone on the Republican platform is for "restricting immigration." He specifically thinks that Mexican immigrants and Muslim immigrants in particular should be restricted. Granted people are guilty of lumping in religious prejudice with racism. But that isn't your main issue with it.
That is not a poor position, or a southern position. I don't think you can conflate criticism of that position with prejudice against republicans. Most republicans are against targeting members of a religion or race.
