{"id":16753,"date":"2020-08-27T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T18:07:43","slug":"influence-is-when-people-actually-listen-to-you-realtors-and-lenders-can-help-save-the-world-right-now-just-by-evangelizing-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16753\/influence-is-when-people-actually-listen-to-you-realtors-and-lenders-can-help-save-the-world-right-now-just-by-evangelizing-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence is when people actually listen to you. Realtors and lenders can help save the world right now just by evangelizing the middle class."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am as Cassandra, and it pains me. I know what is wrong with Western Civilization, at the root, and how to fix it so it will never need fixing again. So much good does this do me \u2013 or anyone else, for that matter.<\/p>\n

Instead we are here, agog as the world we thought we knew crumbles around us, aghast that no one<\/em> rises to its defense.<\/p>\n

Whose job IS<\/u><\/em> that, anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m looking at you, thumbsucker…<\/p>\n

It is beyond all doubt unconscionably rude to hector your clients about politics. And yet: We are at a place where the free real estate market itself it at peril. Absurd? Who saw the country in flames a year ago? And the private and widely-distributed ownership of the land we live, work and play on is the freedom that undergirds all our other freedoms. The enemies of human splendor will destroy it \u2013 if they can.<\/p>\n

Me<\/a>, eleven Independence Days’ ago:<\/p>\n

The essence of our freedom is the free ownership of the land, and yet everywhere we turn, private property is subjected to one law after another, and everything that is not forbidden is compulsory instead.<\/p>\n

This is a grievous error. The men who become Brownshirts or Klansmen or Khmer Rouge \u2014 the men who make up murderous mobs \u2014 are men without land. It is the husbandry of the land \u2014 each man to his own parcel \u2014 that most makes husbands of us, that sweeps away our willingness to live as brigands or rapists or thugs.<\/p>\n

By robbing the private ownership of the land of its meaning, the state is, by increments, robbing its citizens of their humanity. No one burns down his own home, nor his neighbor\u2019s home. But when the time comes that we all seem to own our homes only by sufferance, none of us will have anything left to defend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what can you<\/em> do about all this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think you have to talk to your clients, those who trust you enough to listen to you \u2013 and this doubled-periled epoch is one of those rare moments in the lives of adults when minds are open to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am as Cassandra, and it pains me. I know what is wrong with Western Civilization, at the root, and how to fix it so it will never need fixing again. So much good does this do me \u2013 or anyone else, for that matter. 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