One point about an item in your article.
People CHOOSE to purchase homes in subdivisions with HOAs. Thus, they have already, and voluntarily, answered “Socialism YES”. AFTER you settle on a house or property is the WRONG time to decide that you don’t like having someone else tell you what color your front door must be.
The ansewer is simple: Study carefully and DON’T buy a house or property anywhere where there is an HOA or POA. If enough people followed that advice, the HOA would Go Away!
Sometimes people chose HOA areas BECAUSE they don’t understand the ramifications of doing so and the price is right. Don’t think they do it deliberately because they like socialism.
Currently my wife and I are planning a move out to the country, away from that sort of thing - since Colorado Springs, the last bastion of Conservatism in this area is FULL of nothing but housing developments that thrive on HOAs.
I can’t quite put my finger on why this is, which all these Capitalists here selling homes and forcing this crap down our throats.
I need ten acres and a nice, clear kill zone....