How? By too many people voting for democrats, who have been totally owned by the progressives for decades.

The curriculum describes subprime loans as an attack on home buyers with low incomes rather than a misguided attempt by the government to help such home buyers.

To Progressives, any moneylending is the imposition of a debt, and therefore, inherently oppressive; any interest rate charged is usurious. Just another example of the monied classes (aka white men) using their power and privilege to keep the minority down.

Their housing solutions involve the government providing housing at taxpayer expense - a solution that never allows the resident to leverage the equity in the dwelling in order to better himself or increase his or his family's wealth. Theirs is the same solution that gave us Cabrini Green and all the attendant problems that come with public housing everywhere.

It's amazing how so much recent history is simply not taught, meaning the the lessons from that history goes unlearned as we jump headfirst into making the same mistakes.

There may be some hope on this front. The article referenced is from July 2019. An LA Times article from October 2, 2020 says that Governor Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have required high schoolers to take the course.

"But, he said, there was too much uncertainty about the content of the model curriculum and he wanted to be sure it “achieves balance, fairness and is inclusive of all communities.”"

Which is weasel-wording for, "Even I think this is a bad idea."

The ultimate goal of these progressives is that everything will be provided free to everyone. They seem to be oblivious as to where the money would come from if there were no need to work for anything.

Their immature ideology and lack of understanding of basic human motivation proves the adage: "You can't fix stupid."

Through a marxist lens, one can only make money by exploiting people. Hence businesses and landlords are evil. Their imaginary world where "the people" own the means of production (ie communism) does not solve this problem at all. Factories still need to make shoes and employees still need to come to work and there is still a boss--the boss is just the government. What the communist system does instead of creating unicorns and prosperity is remove incentives for improvement and innovation. You can't start a computer business in your garage and grow it into Apple. That is why you never hear of a world-class company coming from Russia. Remember the response of Kruschev coming to the US who thought the typical grocery store must be fake because it seemed impossible to him to have so much stuff.
Note how this explains the demonization of landlords and the cry to "end capitalism". These people have no idea how things could work better than they do now, they just have this perception that "the people" are being exploited all the time everywhere.
While it is true that the US had slavery, it was also white people who ended slavery, who insisted that blacks be given the vote, etc.
Yep, the US is certainly the worst country ever, except for all the other countries.

Marxism assumes that the benefits of capitalism will continue when the government assumes control in the name of the workers - never realizing that Marxism's obsession with efficiency destroys any incentive for incremental improvements.

Where two companies making cars will strive to outdo each other with safety features, mileage improvements, competing designs, performance enhancements, and interior conveniences, Marxism prefers the efficiency of one company making all the cars without the false "improvement" of a new design rendering the old ones obsolete when they're perfectly functional.

After all, a 1987-model Plymouth K-Car will get you down the road just fine. Why waste design resources and retool production facilities to build a successor when this works?

German Trabant automobile factories sold every car they made. Did they build enough to meet market demand? No one cared, or ever asked, about that. There was no waste.

Did the car meet the needs of drivers? No one asked that question either. They sold out every year and that was what mattered. The factory met its quota.

When the Berlin Wall came down, hundreds of thousands of Trabbies were abandoned as consumers headed West to buy Opels, Volkswagens, or basically any modern Western car they could afford.

The modern cars offered good mileage, fuel injection (the Trabbie used gravity to get gasoline into the combustion chamber), safety features, comfortable seats, climate control, modern sound systems, and features that showed respect for the driver.

There's a reason the Walkman, the iPod, and the iPhone were all invented in the West - in inefficient factories obsessed with inventing and then satisfying market demand.

There's a reason Western grocery stores are always well-stocked. If they weren't, consumers would go to the competing store down the road.

Marxism decries having two stores with different names in close proximity as an inefficient use of real estate, food distribution, and employment. Capitalism knows this is a use of resources that creates an economy responsive to consumer demand with innovative companies vying to outdo each other.

Do you remember when the dry, tasteless sawdust cookies bearing the image of the Chairman were available in the Control The Proles Through Hunger stores and were always sold out when you got there because the Central Planning Committee could only figure out how to get two boxes to each store despite owning 90% of the country's production of everything?

Pepperidge Forced Labor Farms remembers.

"OTTUMWA, IA —

As part of his effort to reinvigorate the coalition that once put Barack Obama in the White House, presidential candidate Joe Biden issued a moving plea for party unity when he told a Democratic voter “You’re a piece of shit and I hope everyone like you dies,” reports confirmed Thursday.

“Look here, pal, fuck you and fuck anybody who thinks like you,” the former vice president said to a town hall participant in what political experts have hailed as a rousing call for Democrats, independents, and even moderate Republicans to join together in harmony and overcome the divisiveness and rancor that have characterized the Trump era."

God bless the Onion. I love it so.