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trinated that they have never even considered that there is a difference and many others actually believe that right wing conservatives are the same fascists of old hunkered down in their bunkers beneath the bombed ruins of berlin we are not we never have been we will never be we believe in small government we believe that by the virtue of our natural being we are provided with natural rights that are not bestowed on us by a benevolent state we believe in private property rights and that the individual is sovereign none of these notions notions that are at the very core of our belief system are considered legitimate by authoritarian governments whether they are of fascist or communist or any other top down socialist ideology point this out the next time some intersectional postmodernist calls you a right winger and hints that deep inside you is a latent fascist waiting to put on jack boots and a brown shirt point out that you do not accept this narrative if they insist they will expose themselves for the liars and hopeless losers that they are and lets be honest it is not the first time you have witnessed them acting foolishly posted by roug at 1 03 pm 3 comments thursday february 28 2019 before there was a green new deal detroit had its own green new deal ten years ago long before there was a green new deal on the tongues and in the minds of impertinent school kids who would later accost dianne feinstein in her senate office there was a celebration of sorts in detroit over the city s success in limiting its own carbon footprint a study that i wrote about at the time by the brooking s institute indicated that detroit rated 37th best among america s largest cities in green house gas emissions it was a small silver lining behind a large rain cloud the detroit area did surprisingly well in a 100 city comparison of global warming gases although it s not clear how much of that standing reflects economic doldrums and an increasingly older mix of residents in a place where the population is not growing by most measures including the degree of sprawl and lack of mass transit metro detroit hardly seems like a candidate for a city with a lighter carbon footprint than most it did surprisingly well i think a walk down memory lane might be useful here in 2008 detroit was not a vibrant place to do business many large employers had already left the city and a few of those remaining were on the brink of exodus factories closed the epicenter of american automobile manufacturing had shifted southward and while the detroit lions and detroit tigers had made major investments in the midtown area most major area commerce as a general rule took place outside of detroit in counties to the north and west and the population of detroit in particular and michigan as a whole was shrinking according to the us census bureau the city lost over 200 000 residents in the years 2000 10 most of these folks wound up in suburbia but the state over the same time period lost over 50 000 residents the only recorded decade of population loss in michigan s history around here we like to call this the jennifer granholm effect detroit city schools were crumbling both physically and academically parents not wanting to see their children raised in the octagon grabbed their kids and took them across 8 mile if you want to see a city s population shrink make sure a cornerstone of your strategy includes exposing the children to the dangers of violence drugs and a disruptive learning environment a child who entered the first grade in detroit in the year 1996 had approximately a 30 percent chance of graduating in 2008 and those that did graduate were most likely in need of jump start courses if interested in college so people left they left in cars and in moving vans for sale signs first dotted and then dominated the landscapes houses went feral sidewalks and side streets crumbled street lights went dark the good news we were told in 2008 was the smaller carbon footprint but maybe this is not so surprising after all carbon footprints are to a great degree a measurement of economic activity fossil fuels the major culprit in global climate change is still inarguably the least expensive and most efficient energy source on the planet wherever people live wherever they congregate wherever they travel and wherever they produce they consume energy and today that means they create carbon emissions the green new deal largely tries to combat these emissions by shifting away from fossil fuels and by choking off energy usage that benevolent and all knowing bureaucrats feel is unnecessary so shut down the coal plant erect some windmills and get granny to turn her thermostat down to 63 degrees and yet a growing and robust economy jumps existential hurdles as a matter of due course the wealth created by charging economies fuels solutions to problems that appeared almost insurmountable to those who previously lived in periods of crises a poor world cannot a poor world could not cure the plague it could not feed the starving it could not reliably raise its children into adulthood it could not tell the people of galveston to flee the hurricane and today s world as wealthy as it is cannot currently alter the carbon trajectory of this planet but a more wealthy world given time and motivation could and this is where the green new deal for all its rose petals and sprinkles of promise will fail for in its economy crippling efforts to combat a problem for which it cannot solve it will crush the only mechanism on earth that could possibly provide a solution in the future that being the american free market the ballpark price tag for alexandria ocasio cortez s green new deal is on the order of 90 trillion dollars over the next ten years we don t have that much cabbage according to the st louis federal reserve the gdp of michigan in 2017 was approximately 509 billion i made about half of that mowing lawns in order to fund the green new deal it would take confiscating every cent of gdp in michigan that year and then borrowing another 175 times that much from al gore which brings me back to detroit and 2008 the most effective current way to control carbon emissions is to debilitate a society detroit proved that strip from its people the need to move to congregate to recreate and to reproduce close the shutters and lock the doors while it was effective it was a pretty big price to pay for a society that for the first time in history had solved existential crises of disease pestilence hunger and conflict the green new deal authors do not consider that they will separate man from his carbon by also separating him from his wealth their minds are too deeply wrapped around setting up roadblocks and forcing behavior changes than to think about what the effects of these changes will have on the affected then again those in charge never have to suffer as perilously as those who actually live on the front lines of policy but today s detroit is not in 2008 the city is experiencing a stunning rebirth due to new business investment while the tendrils of this economic expansion have yet to reach every downtrodden neighborhood work is now available in the city for nearly anyone who is willing to strap on a hardhat or swing a hammer we can predict that carbon emissions will rise with such growth but so will wealth the future technologies that a wealthy society can create will answer the daunting questions of today such as climate change and a mousetrap i can depend on and will provide answers for crises of the future that we cannot yet envision wealth in the hands of inventors and innovators will solve our problems the gnd will make the ultimate solution impossible posted by roug at 9 11 pm 0 comments friday february 22 2019 the value of familial political discussions after the dinner dishes had been cleared the family did what it always does during and after such events it talked and while the poltergeists typically take the night off when we gather as such on this night there was mischief in the air as images of an orange complected man swirled about the room and hovered for tense moments above that same space that just minutes before had been occupied by pizza and crisp delicious salads we have been warned to avoid such topics for the sake of our mental health for there is something about that particular orange specter that coaxes out of the best of us the worst of our natures numerous articles are written prior to the thanksgiving and christmas holidays on how families should either avoid all such discussions or conversely can use the holidays as platforms to convince others of their transgressions and thought crimes chapters of psychology books could easily be dedicated to either of these dysfunctions and so it was that warnings went unheeded and territory best left unexplored was invaded first haltingly and then in a stampede of words and emotions and histrionics that would make the press jealous were it aimed at a staged windy city hate crime i ve been thinking about this for the past few days i have historically been an advocate of avoiding these conversations altogether but i might become a supporter of these potential food fights even if we could gain something for a a reason other than the convincing of others the importance of these discussions to an unraveling nation is not in the evangelism itself but in the context of that evangelism and that it takes place within the comfort of familiarity and acceptance when the dust and spittle settles we should be able to recognize that there are good and decent people on both sides of every argument except the alt right and hardened abortion advocates they suck and should eat outside where else can we realistically and confidently be exposed to this evidence outside of the family unit and the civil society it is almost impossible because we have to know people with some certainty before we can discern their character at a distance this is not always possible an example is the talking head on television than can portray his decency and wisdom with measured words without any of his dedicated viewers knowing that he has installed a remote locking mechanism on his office door in a scheme to trap potential harassment victims inside the lair as such we put too much confidence in unknown professionals with advance degrees in influence and indoctrination while discounting those we know more closely it is only after we learn that the kind newsman on the tube is actually a sexual predator that we can give his opinions a worthy trust i m not saying that aunt alice is a foreign policy expert or that cousin billy iii has studied climate science what i am saying is that alice and billy 3 represent to us people in the flesh who we know to be decent people and whose characters cannot be dismissed or besmirched as evil because of their viewpoint on al gore s carbon footprint their history of caring over skinned knees and bruised egos is more important than any political opinion on topics over which they have very little influence or experience and yet they know at least as much as you or i do what should shine through is the decency of those we know and love in an age where the family unit is ever more attacked and where politics is becoming ever more divisive the family is ever more important for the glue it provides the family proves to us that familiarity can transcend the division of politics and that forceful opinions while often times delivered without the politeness we intend do not place a value on our souls prior to the reign of king donald most families across america were able to scoop peas and mashed potatoes into gaping maws without having to worry overmuch about them being coughed up again in a gale of political indignation and grievance though the age has changed and the atmosphere is less temperate than it used to be we should try to understand that those with differing political opinions are not by default the hitlers of old if the family and civil society can not accomplish this than nothing can and if nothing can accomplish it there are truly rough waters ahead posted by roug at 2 45 pm 0 comments monday november 19 2018 an effort in civility the dust is still unsettled after our most recent election several races have flip flopped since election night and several more hang in the balance pending almost certain litigation or manual recounts rarely do these flip flops end in the favor of the gop or conservatives but we ll take florida and mia love gop loyalists in general and conservatives in particular should not be happy with the overall results not only of this election but also with the successes of the past two years by historic standards the midterms were not disastrous but oh what could have been those two years of unshared government control by the gop have produced some benefits in certain specific areas but overall they also contained real disappointment as the tag team of democrat party operatives and never trumpers thwarted much of what the once conservative party could have achieved had it not been fractured key to this of course is that the now standard bearer of the gop is not a consistent conservative despite his occasional dabblings i understand the never trump movement when the crowded gop field contained 18 different candidates i figured trump was about my 14th choice at that point he was bristling and bombastic and well very trump like but who among us took trump the man seriously enough to take trump the candidate seriously not me but as people on that long list of candidates fell aside week after week and the cream finally rose to the top that cream turned out to be donald trump john kasich and ted cruz it was a three legged stool with three cracked legs each of the three candidates was at least mildly appalled by the other two kasich because he governed like a democrat with his medicaid expansion and big government top down expansionism cruz because he appeared to be a quasi plastic mannequin on those rare moments when he didn t appear to be a robot and trump because of well trump most conservatives supported cruz as did i while trump gathered the populists and kasich collected his closest relatives and those with low self esteem in the aftermath cruz and trump established a rather fragile truce while kasich and both of his supporters grabbed their toys and went home crying those three men loosely represent the largest factions of the gop the never trumper establishment kasich the conservatives cruz and the trump worshipers guess who there is a fair amount of crossover particularly among the establishment and conservative never trumpers within the gop trump s personality his confrontational style and his inability to ever let an insult go unchallenged have poisoned him to many who could have accepted him if he were more unlike himself they would never and will never vote for trump they would rather see hillary in office 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