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The Realignment

175 | Michael Shellenberger: How Progressives Failed America’s Cities

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The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, returns to The Realignment to argue that progressive governance has failed on its own terms to address, why he still considers himself a “liberal” even though many on the right are inclined to agree with his critiques, how to address homelessness and housing shortages, and more... Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here welcome back to the Realignment.

0:08.9

We need to have universal psychiatric care. For me, it's been the thing that when I

0:13.9

push back to conservatives because we do agree on a lot of aspects of what I'm saying.

0:18.8

That's the most difficult pill in San Francisco swallow and I am finding that when you kind of

0:24.0

hear these things which is basically enforce the law, shelter first, housing earned, so housing's

0:31.6

not a right, housing's to then you would earn through absolute and for compliance with psychiatric

0:38.0

care and universal psych. That's an agenda that I mean it's even hard when you look at that

0:42.7

whole agenda to be like that's the right name or that's the left wing agenda. I do think it

0:46.5

sits more comfortably right now in the center right and totally fine with that. But yeah, I mean my

0:51.6

ambitions are I would love to see Republicans pick up both a nuclear heavy climate agenda

1:01.3

and a shelter first housing earned universal psychiatry agenda when it comes to almost this.

1:06.4

If that happens, I'd be delighted.

1:14.8

Happy Thursday everybody. If you were watching this on YouTube you will see that

1:18.9

Golda has made her try umphent return. She managed to not bark during this episode of

1:25.5

Michael Schellenberger we just recorded. So as a reward she gets to continue to make her YouTube

1:31.6

debut. If you were listening to this on audio definitely go check out and say hi. She is a huge fan

1:36.4

of everybody. But this episode is a great one. It's with Michael Schellenberger. I mentioned this

1:42.8

before. He is the author of San Francisco how progressives ruin cities. I know. I know you heard

1:50.6

that title. You heard the dunking on progressives and you said martial and soccer you two just did

1:56.4

an episode dunking on the new culture wars. You talk about how labels are bad. Despite everything

2:02.4

in the title, so why is this conversation with Michael which the second type of Adam on the show.

2:06.5

Why is it worth it and why is there something here? Yeah, I'm going to we asked Michael that at the

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