Lurking in the ideological swamp inundating American politics is a movement that inverts the “Not in My Backyard” or NIMBY impulse historically shared by many Americans and so excoriated by the media and its “experts.” That movement is called, Orwellianlike, “Yes in My Backyard (YIMBY), the very phrasing of which suggests abject surrender, just as when Winston Smith won the victory over himself.
Begun in the 1990s, in, of course, San Francisco, YIMBY is a joint movement by real estate interests and far leftists to abolish housing density limits in favor of packing huge numbers of people into “affordable,” government-financed, Soviet-style apartment blocks.
Though YIMBYism has been around for decades, it may be coming of age, if the Democrat party has its way. A portion of the Dems’ presidential platform having to do with housing those millions of illegal migrants Biden and Harris have already welcomed fits hand-in-glove with the YIMBY concept.
On Friday, the Harris campaign revealed their plan to build “three million new homes” over a four-year period. Those homes will not be single-family homes — an idea anathema to the neo-Communists who control the party. They will consist of blocks of thousands of units: grim, cheap, tawdry, Brutalist hives that will become violent, rat-invested slums almost immediately upon habitation. And they will be built, you can be sure, in the reddest of cities and states, which will be instantly turned blue by the inevitable amnesty the neo-Coms have planned.
The YIMBY plan is a dystopian nightmare for American citizens. The question is: Will they vote their country into Sovietude? Don’t think they won’t.