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.
Although anecdotal, this would suggest to me is that the demographic is aging out, and being replaced by people in slightly different economic situations. If the Median age of a Realtor is 60, but the average age is 49, that would suggest to me a huge rift in age. It isn’t a smooth curve but more like a sharp drop. While the old try desperately to maintain their lifestyle after decades of being crushed by capitalism, the young seek out this low barrier role in hopes to escape the gravity of the late-stage capitalism they were born into.
As the small business owners are vaporized, from their ashes rises the Realtor, ready to serve the property speculators and big business owners.
Like some kinda of fucked up Phoenix