Out on the prairie. You’ve been traveling in a covered wagon for months and months, and you come across an abandoned house, no crops, no livestock. You move in, plow and seed, harvest, fix up the ramshackle house, and years later, your kids growing up there, you think of it as home, but some ragged tramp shows up, having lost everything in the gold fields further West, and claims the land is his. You can deny his claim based on adverse possession, doctrine of laches, and unjust enrichment if he moves in and takes over all your years of work. So you are said to have squatters’ rights.
I thought the poster was asking about something more relevant, how did the left keep changing, ignoring, discarding, and passing laws to bring on this situation.
The left has been fighting evictions and owner rights since at least the 70s.
All of which is not relevant to the situations today where someone moves in and if they are there more than a month, you’re out of luck.
Besides, even the pioneers knew that if someone built a house that someone had to have owned the land at one time. It would behoove them to find out whose it was before investing their lives in it just to have the true owner show up and claim it.
If you put that kind of work into it without making sure you had clear title to it, you are a fool.
Lovely picture painted, however...
An absolutely awful attempt at an analogy and completely, unrelated to the contemporary topic at hand.