Who are you calling “we”, Williamson?? I don’t recall you and the rest of us being on the same side of much of anything; go off to the Dems with the neoconservatives, please. Plus, Trump won the last election with the support of the people you cast aspersions at - tell that to Presidents Romney and McCain.
So, what’s his solution?
Large cities are cancers on the land.
Hey, Ft Worth has TCU!
“—— conservatives talk about London and Paris as though they sit on the lower circles of Dante’s hellscape. Oslo? Helsinki? Zurich? Madrid? Lisbon? They may look like perfectly nice, cultured, thriving world cities on the outside, but conservatives are sure that they are prefigurations of the coming caliphate”
I’ve been to many of the above cities——and love them.
Would visit any one of them again.
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http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles2/jerusalem.htm
...It cannot be accidental that Cain, the first murderer, also founds the first city. In some respects, this can be seen simply as the linkage between urbanization and violence upon which many have commented.
But the Biblical story is more subtle than that.
Cain murders out of passion. He is not a reasoned killer, not cold-blooded nor one who murders for the love of it. He simply cannot control his passions at a particular moment or in a particular situation.
Significantly enough, cities are places where density and the pressures related to it lead people into uncontrollable acts of passion, acts which are often violent in character, far more so than rural areas. That is one dimension of the Biblical account.
Another is that people who commit violence need to protect themselves against retribution.
The earliest cities in the Bible are primarily places of protection. Historians of the ancient Near East generally agree that cities originally came into existence for defensive purposes, as places where the inhabitants of a region could come together to collectively defend themselves...
So, if urban dwellers aren’t interested in constitutional government, there is something wrong with constitutional government?
Sir Kevin, Vanquisher of Straw Men.
I saw Joe Henderson, with Charlie Haden and Al Foster at the Caravan of Dreams in Ft. Worth.
I love Ft. Worth. Our son works for the city of Ft. Worth and we’re dang proud of that. Hub was sure right all those years ago when he said he wouldn’t raise his family in Houston (he worked for them for over 30 years) and moved us to the country. God blessed us and put us in a bastion of conservatism.........;)
May he be awarded according to his works.
Fort Worth is insolvent.
We won’t always have it because it will collapse under the weight of it’s inadequately funded pensions.
A topic discussed on these forums frequently.
Bill must be spinning in his grave...
I like Ft Worth. Especially Angelo’s BBQ
But I digress....
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cities are anachronisms.
They came into existence on waterways, rail lines and roads as places where men concentrated capital-money, supplies and labor from all over the world-to undertake projects for the common need.
No need to be so geographically bound today. Money-instead of gold and silver-has become electrons, information is the substance of trade, while goods and material are individually directly distributed by truck and mailman. The efficiencies that initially made the suburbs possible are now making the city obsolete.
The “debt sinks” in the USA-the “trillion -dollar” debt sinks-are the major metropolitan centers. Look at their muni-bond values. A dumpster fire that will never be put out-but eventually will be allowed to burn itself out once Fed.gov gets the picture.
Mass illegal immigration and the attendant Federal extortion monies that come with it are all that keep Chicago, LA, SF, and half a dozen other major cities alive