Most conservatives do not realize the power that has grown in Mordor on the Potomac.
I just spent four days there. It's one of my favorite cities (YMMV). I've been spending time there since I was a teenager in the 60s.
Three things impressed me:
1) The sheer SCALE of it all. When I was young, the executive departments fit along Constitution and Independence. Now, they stretch out to beyond Rockville, beyond Vienna, almost to Baltimore.
2) The sheer WEALTH of Arlington and Fairfax counties, and NW DC. Rents in white DC are higher than in white Manhattan. Practically every ranch house within a mile of Lee Highway has been torn down and replaced with a mini mansion, or is under agreement for same.
3) The size of the workforce. I drove out 270 Monday morning, and for an hour, on the other side, a river of Federal orcs, seemingly without end, crawling in to Mordor to loot us, control us, and most importantly to continue to rewrite the rules so that elections won't matter.
It may well be that voting for Congress, whose power is shrinking by the hour, and electing a President of the right (political) hue, will not reverse the growth and power of this imperial city. They will not go without a fight.
YEP —
And to think...how much 0bama has added to it in 3 years.
“the private sector is doing fine...”
Most of the current development around DC, and now lurching towards Richmond, is private sector. We've had incredible population growth in Virginia and now in North Carolina.
Did you realize NC is one of America's major manufacturing and industrial centers now, and for the last couple of decades has been #2 among states in total value of agricultural production ~ a lot of that having to do with 5 million pigs (snork).