Posted on 02/16/2024 4:57:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
My neighborhood is changing. In just the six years that we have lived in our suburb after fleeing St. Louis, Missouri for a more conservative area that supports our conservative values, towering apartment buildings are being built everywhere. There have been dozens of new car washes, chain restaurants, and big businesses put in or approved.
During 2020, panhandlers started appearing in the area. This has grown so common that the local government had to recently pass a bill outlawing it for the safety of pedestrians and drivers because the panhandlers were obstructing traffic.
While conservative Americans have continuously expressed outrage at political movements that seek to urbanize suburban areas, uni-party elitists in Washington have pressed to globalize every aspect of our lives.
Now, I believe that these officials do deserve plenty of blame, but unfortunately, local officials are a driving force behind this modern crusade to turn every area into a city — complete with liquor stores on every corner.
I report for my local paper. It is run by a former writer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. She left that “prestigious” paper when they went corporate years ago.
Writing for a locally owned paper and reporting on my local beats was supposed to be a nice change of pace from my other political writing job, but after months of attending Board of Aldermen meetings, I’ve learned that, just like everything else, all of this starts closer to home.
I have three beats. One is my municipality, which I love. The mayor and board all get along and pass pretty much everything that is proposed with little to no opposition. It seems very kosher, but that is because virtually none of our 60,000 residents in my suburb attend the meetings.
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The leftists don’t believe that anyone should escape their utopia.
60,000 residents in a suburban municipality is the problem. It’s either not a real suburb, or it’s such a sprawling mess that it can’t be sustained at a suburban density (hence the urbanization).
Some people love any kind of power and are attracted to the idea of telling everyone else how they should live.
The natural tendency is for the wrong people to gravitate to office. This problem is exacerbated because the Media have a strong bias to promote leftists to office.
The big grey apartment buildings are the norm in all Communist countries.
Nobody likes living in cities anymore, they’re too crowded.
Well ... if we are going to import a city the size of Chicago each and every year — and that’s just the illegals across the border with Mexico — where do we think they are going to go?
I know, I know ... wherever the Biden human smuggling operation dumps them. But that will ultimately be mostly concentrated in the cities. It will continue to flood lower income housing, which is already in tight supply. And the ripple effect will continue to densify the suburbs.
The birth rate of the native U.S. population is below replacement level. Population growth is entirely driven by immigration, mostly illegal. If we are going to double the nation’s population every 40-50 years, the urbanization of the suburbs is inevitable.
We all understand this. The leftists don’t, or pretend not to. At this point, I’m ready to suggest that the next Republican president go to every sanctuary state, say that public housing has to be prioritized for penniless illegal immigrants who don’t speak the language, and that this includes student dorms at every public university. College students are privileged in the global intersectionality calculus. Let privileged college students live on the economy and turn their dorms over to the newcomers. And let woke college faculties navigate seas of illegals turning the plazas, sidewalks, landscaped areas, and the entryways of campus buildings into tent cities. The idea that the president doesn’t have the power to do this is being destroyed on a daily basis by Biden’s lawlessness. The schools and universities are now federal puppets. Or so says the democrats.
Let the no borders advocates live in the global shantytown they are inviting into the U.S.
I’ve seen pics. ‘Apartments’ are tiny, cookie-cutter and grim.
“...the Media have a strong bias to promote leftists...”
It’s bad enough they promote leftist, but now they are promoting DEI candidates with their 75 IQ’s. A nation being lead by full blown retards, idiots and simpletons. Take a look at Fanny Willis or Alvin Brag or Letitia James or the mayors of any urban hell hole, and the entire cast of lunatic miscreants in the congressional black caucus and The Squad.
America is now run by primitive Pygmy cannibals, almost ALL of them democrats. The empire is going to collapse, and then the fun starts.
The leftists don’t believe that anyone should escape their utopia.
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Because leftists know that productive people will flee socialist strongholds if they have alternatives and choices.
Leftists need to eliminate choices. It’s not good enough to have their own deadbeat enclaves. They need everyone to suffer with thtem
| Jessica Marie Baumgartner is wrong. Citizens don't need to 'show up' and explain how important our community is - to beg. They need to run for local offices and win. The people doing this are organized and they have a plan... just like when these same types took over positions on school boards a few years back. No one knew what was happening or where they came from...
No kids but the same left wing, sexual weirdo mentality.
Happened to DA's in our cities too. George Soros works from the bottom up.. No amount of logic will sway these folks because they're NOT there for the good of the city or community or neighborhood. These are the 'no cash bail needed' people, the porn in school libraries folks, and the 'large ugly housing projects' folks. You don't fight them by begging or logic or reason - you fight them by running against them.
To put it bluntly … Developers and municipal leaders are hell-bent on having dense residential development with tiny apartments because they are looking to attract single people and couples with no children. The political/financial landscape in these areas is set up in such a way that everyone has a financial incentive to approve new development that generates a huge tax revenue stream while adding no students to the public school system.
“During 2020, panhandlers started appearing in the area”
I stopped, rolled down my window and told a panhandler yesterday: “Really! You’ve been doing this for FIVE years!” I know because I gave him $1.00 five years ago — he looked at the bill, sneered at the small amount, sneered at me and grudgingly put the bill in his pocket. A memorable occasion.
It must have effected him because I saw him 10 minutes later at a different stop sign — I rolled down my window and laughed at him...
I just read an article on real estate that said the buyers aren’t looking for all these apartment buildings, buyers want traditional single-family housing on a piece of land. What is being built is what government wants. So again, I will ask, why are we being imposed upon? Our form of government is supposed to be a representative form where government puts out what the governed demand.
Do you have an example where this strategy worked?
I can’t think of one.
Its hard to fight cheaters unless you cheat.
I’ve been asking panhandlers for gas money.
It will be like France, where the suburbs are the areas the poor live in.
Buyers don’t want the apartment buildings. RENTERS do.
Most of these beggars are nothing but the equivalent of South Carolina’s Irish Travelers. Every time I see one at the entrance/or near Walmart I shoot them the bird and tell them to go somewhere else and grift.
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