Contrive to get the ear of our Illustrious Leader and you get your scheme imposed throughout the land by fiat. Intrigue Adolf Hitler in your conception of fascist art and,blitzschnell a monument will be built. Why do we do this with a top down approach? Cannot cities control even the structures on their own turf? Some academic comes up with a plan (which actually sounds good to me), get the ear of the president, and the full catalog of resources and money of the federal government is employed to restructure every majority African-American city from Washington.
Is this how our hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars are being doled out by this administration? Are all of the people who have the president's ear earnest academics, or are they black nationalist opportunists? How do we know? Is there congressional oversight? If there is congressional oversight is vitiated by our system of one-party rule?
Who draws the lines where these sections will be bulldozed? If the local planning boards do it, are they in effect only rubberstamps of the bureaucrats from Washington who control the purse? If so, what has become of the rights of local residents to democratically vote in or vote out their representatives who normally draw these lines?
The questions go on and on. The point is not whether the idea is a good idea or bad idea. The point is that the whole system is spinning out of control, in the dark, and corruption, ego tripping, and mismanagement are the inevitable handmaidens of this lack of control and transparency.
