And this type of thinking is exactly what leads us back to what I said: continuously raising the temperature in the room.
Well yes, stealing peoples property does raise the temperature. As does acting affronted when people get mad at you for stealing their property.
Or we could just nationalize said properties.
The classic refrain of the commi.
I don't think you know what Communism actually is, but in this case I have to question whether you understand basic economics also. I'm sure I'll get some boilerplate Libertarianism in response now.
I wonder whether you understand the basic concept of private property, property rights, contracts, rule of law, or consent of the governed.
Private property is when a private entity (i.e. not the government) is recognized by the government as owning said property.
Property rights are those things that an entity has the
right to do with their private property. The US government (indeed most every government to ever exist) is pretty explicit in what those rights are and how they can be altered.
Contracts are agreements between multiple entities that the government has agreed to use the power of the state to enforce.
Rule of Law is the concept that the government is not allowed to do things that it is not legally authorized to do.
Consent of the governed is the basic principle that a government only remains a government so long as the population it governs is willing to consent to that governance.
In this case, the government violated the Rule of Law as the CDC did not have the legal authority to decree an eviction moratorium. It then ignored contracts that it, itself, recognized as valid by decreeing that people who failed to pay rent could continue to live in rental properties. In doing this it abrogated one of the most fundamental private property rights; the right to exclude.
And then there is Consent of the Governed. As in the thing that any government that tries to wholesale nationalize private property in the US will lose.
