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As Portman steps aside, I keep thinking about my tweet thread about Manchester, a small town on the Ohio River that is struggling.
It’s a symbol of the failed GOP agenda of the past generation
Manchester is in Ohio’s 2nd District, where Portman served for 12 years
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If anyone knew the challenges of Manchester, it would be Senator Portman, who represented it all that time.
Then he served as Senator for another 12 years.
No one in Ohio, and few in DC, had more influence, more sway, in the majority, than Senator Portman.
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And in that time, towns like Manchester voted for Portman again and again and again
And what did they get from Portman and the GOP?
Tax cuts for the best off, attacks on health care, precious little infrastructure, attacks on new ideas to lift new jobs (Ie. green jobs).
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Supports for big businesses and monopolies that are crushing small towns. Etc.
And an Ohio Republican Party and legislature that has attacked local government for years, both their autonomy as well as their funding.
Towns like Manchester needed so much. They got nothing.
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As a result, after 24 years of representation from as connected a Congressman or Senator as any town can have in America, Manchester’s Main Street looks like this today...
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As Portman steps aside, I keep thinking about my tweet thread about Manchester, a small town on the Ohio River that is struggling.
It’s a symbol of the failed GOP agenda of the past generation
Manchester is in Ohio’s 2nd District, where Portman served for 12 years
1/
THREAD \u2014 Manchester, Ohio and why it matters
— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) November 13, 2020
One of the cleanest points on the Ohio River is in Adams County, about 50 miles east of Cincinnati.
By a town called Manchester.
Beautiful, right?
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If anyone knew the challenges of Manchester, it would be Senator Portman, who represented it all that time.
Then he served as Senator for another 12 years.
No one in Ohio, and few in DC, had more influence, more sway, in the majority, than Senator Portman.
2/
And in that time, towns like Manchester voted for Portman again and again and again
And what did they get from Portman and the GOP?
Tax cuts for the best off, attacks on health care, precious little infrastructure, attacks on new ideas to lift new jobs (Ie. green jobs).
3/
Supports for big businesses and monopolies that are crushing small towns. Etc.
And an Ohio Republican Party and legislature that has attacked local government for years, both their autonomy as well as their funding.
Towns like Manchester needed so much. They got nothing.
4/
As a result, after 24 years of representation from as connected a Congressman or Senator as any town can have in America, Manchester’s Main Street looks like this today...
5/
@nikkino63786417 1. Orwell wasn't a science fiction writer. ORWELL WORKED FOR THE BIG BOY propagandists. He worked for the BBC during World War II. He said in his own biography, “I had
to lie to the public to make them believe that the cheaper cuts of meat ....
2. that was available during the war, all the ration stuff -all the stuff they'd normally throw away was actually better for them than the stuff that they had before.” That was the Department of Propaganda & that's where Orwell realised that by the erminology they were trained...
3. to be use to could convince the public of anything & thars the same technique used today. But, at least Orwell got out of it. He didn't agree with it. We know it's a totalitarian world police state that we're going into the one that George Orwell warned us about & that will...
https://t.co/V03NbrAYyz if we don't resist because have trained people from birth into the sort of Aldous Huxley type "Brave New World." That's to come out after the Orwellian phase we're going through right now.
5. Interestingly, George Orwell in his "1984" called the particular country of residence for Winston "Ingsoc," which was a play on England socialism or English socialism. Major revolutions (physical revolutions)need masses of following & there always has to be a good reason....
to lie to the public to make them believe that the cheaper cuts of meat ....
2. that was available during the war, all the ration stuff -all the stuff they'd normally throw away was actually better for them than the stuff that they had before.” That was the Department of Propaganda & that's where Orwell realised that by the erminology they were trained...
3. to be use to could convince the public of anything & thars the same technique used today. But, at least Orwell got out of it. He didn't agree with it. We know it's a totalitarian world police state that we're going into the one that George Orwell warned us about & that will...
https://t.co/V03NbrAYyz if we don't resist because have trained people from birth into the sort of Aldous Huxley type "Brave New World." That's to come out after the Orwellian phase we're going through right now.
5. Interestingly, George Orwell in his "1984" called the particular country of residence for Winston "Ingsoc," which was a play on England socialism or English socialism. Major revolutions (physical revolutions)need masses of following & there always has to be a good reason....
There is little understanding within Australian society of the requirement to and legitimacy of adopting special measures.
Government policy does not acknowledge the applicability to Indigenous people of the right to self-determination. In 1997 the cruel Howard government actively rejected self- determination as the basis of Indigenous policy.
Key reports which make recommendations for redressing Indigenous disadvantage, including the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and Bringing them home, .....
the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, have ’NOT’ been fully implemented.
Many recommendations, particularly those concerning the application of the principle of self-determination, have been actively rejected.
Such a waste
— Steve Grey (@Stephen_J_Grey) January 28, 2021
Government policy does not acknowledge the applicability to Indigenous people of the right to self-determination. In 1997 the cruel Howard government actively rejected self- determination as the basis of Indigenous policy.
Key reports which make recommendations for redressing Indigenous disadvantage, including the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and Bringing them home, .....
the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, have ’NOT’ been fully implemented.
Many recommendations, particularly those concerning the application of the principle of self-determination, have been actively rejected.
1/OK, so. Let's talk about Left-NIMBYism.
We all know about Right-NIMBYs, rabidly protecting their white-flight suburbs from Those People. And there are plenty of liberal NIMBYs too.
But NIMBYs of the Left are also a force to be reckoned
2/Left-NIMBYs have developed a canon of interlocking, mutually reinforcing beliefs about housing and urbanism.
These beliefs are mostly false, but they form a powerful "canon" that quickly ossifies into a hardened worldview.
It looks something like this:
3/Fortunately, Nathan J. Robinson of Current Affairs has written an article that perfectly encapsulates the Left-NIMBY worldview (and quotes me in it!).
So this is a teachable
4/Robinson selectively quotes a Bloomberg article of mine (https://t.co/iamRrW6oei).
Look at the part he quoted, vs. what I actually wrote!
Pretty different, eh? 😉
5/In fact, as I wrote in the article that Robinson failed to read more than one line of, it's theoretically possible that Left-NIMBYs COULD be right that allowing market-rate housing drives up local rents.
I take that possibility very seriously, as do YIMBYs.
We all know about Right-NIMBYs, rabidly protecting their white-flight suburbs from Those People. And there are plenty of liberal NIMBYs too.
But NIMBYs of the Left are also a force to be reckoned
2/Left-NIMBYs have developed a canon of interlocking, mutually reinforcing beliefs about housing and urbanism.
These beliefs are mostly false, but they form a powerful "canon" that quickly ossifies into a hardened worldview.
It looks something like this:
3/Fortunately, Nathan J. Robinson of Current Affairs has written an article that perfectly encapsulates the Left-NIMBY worldview (and quotes me in it!).
So this is a teachable
4/Robinson selectively quotes a Bloomberg article of mine (https://t.co/iamRrW6oei).
Look at the part he quoted, vs. what I actually wrote!
Pretty different, eh? 😉
5/In fact, as I wrote in the article that Robinson failed to read more than one line of, it's theoretically possible that Left-NIMBYs COULD be right that allowing market-rate housing drives up local rents.
I take that possibility very seriously, as do YIMBYs.