it's not pessimism, it's understanding how people work.

The funny thing about leftist/progressive agenda is... everyone is for it, until it impacts them personally. Everyone wants more housing, more immigration, more education.... until its in their town and their tax bill goes up. Then all the sudden they are VERY opposed to these things.

My own very blue city just had lots of tax rates go up. All the sudden our very popular progressive major is getting a lot less popular... and her progressive plans to expand and fund new things is now being cut back...

weird how that works, right? it's almost as if people don't want the things they say they want...

everyone's idealism disappears when the bills come due and the cold hard facts of finite resources and infinite demand slap them in the face.