It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.

But what happens when Republicans aren’t standing in the way?

In many states — including California, New York and Illinois — Democrats control all the levers of power. They run the government. They write the laws. And as we explore in the video above, they often aren’t living up to their values.

From the description of this video, published on the YT channel of The New York Times

You can’t afford a house, in Palo Alto or anywhere else you would want to live, because the good people who already live there, the deepest blue people of Blue No Matter Who, care much more about their own property values and bottom line than they do about you having a roof over your head.

This is the essential paradox, or hypocrisy if you like, of capitalism and the American Way.

I got mine, Jack, by whatever fatal means necessary, and you, my sweet huddled masses who I love so loudly on the NPR, can go pound sand.

Every thinking person knows exactly how and why Republicans suck. Almost no well-educated affluent liberal thinking person wants to think of their party as nothing more or less than the Uniparty, where there can be all sorts of distinctions without any real difference, but that’s the reality, and very few of those thinking people will entertain any notion of their own complicity in what’s really going on here.

From Boulder to Mosul, from Santa Fe to Kiev, from Boston to Kabul and Gaza and yes, any Somali shithole you were lucky enough to not be born in.

Square that circle within your own head, and you may even free your mind.