All the right-wing reactionary weirdos in my area are all the same guy. Old, bearded, white, “Realtors”. Every single one of them. I’m convinced that becoming a Realtor is a sign of your desperate attempt to escape the class shift from petite-bourgeois to proletariat. Getting your license isn’t that hard, from my understanding.
Often they have failed businesses they are propping up with their Realtor day job. You’ll find them worming around in public comment on municipal zoning code. Sometimes they come in different flavors, maybe they’re the right wing 2A style, perhaps they’re a Christian Evangelical brand, or they’re a disgruntled “veteran” (gotta check their credentials on that stuff) motif. I have one in town who is all three, a figurative scoop of Neapolitan style reactionary garbage (all three flavors in one tub!).
The way capitalism squeezes these people, often forces them into this little Realtor mold. This isn’t some profound analysis, but I bet if we did some qualitative investigating, we’d find they’re all very similar.
The only person I have known who became a realtor said openly that he was doing it to “become a slumlord.” 😳
That was the final straw for that friendship, and the fact that most of that social circle were amused and encouraging made it the final straw for the wider group.
So many of them grew up poor and dealt with horrible landlords!! ?!?! What the fuck??
The one who became a realtor grew up in a trailer and only went to university because his tuition was free because his mom had worked an office job there for decades, and he was very offended when I suggested that perhaps he wasn’t as “self-made” as he wanted to believe.
When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to charge $500 in pet rent for each guppy or molly