Smells crazy in there

Do you preach the gospel with that mouth, Reverend?

Releasing today, I join April Ajoy and Katherine Stewart on Red Wine and Blue’s Sacred Politics podcast. Listen here:

This you?

Let’s unpack this a bit. The image evokes mid-20th C US. So, assuming the happy couple is meant to be homeowners, their mortgage would be subsidized by federal programs—which programs were funded by a steeply progressive income tax (top marginal tax rate in the 90% range). 1/

So what is it about the political context of this image that excites so much trad enthusiasm? Is it the fact that until ca. 1970, people of color were legally barred from accessing the subsidized mortgages with which the US government created the white middle class? 4/

I really can’t say for sure. But I doubt they’re pining for a system of progressive taxation designed to subsidize public goods that disproportionately benefit the less well-off. So it must be some combination of the other stuff, which is not good. /end

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Hey Joel, quick question: . . . . . This you?

Actually, it’s straight out of the Nazi playbook

Scott broke this all the way down.

What are we doing here, folks.

So she expected them to have done the reading and put thought into their writing assignments. Wild stuff.