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And the same process will occur with the memories of their jobs. In X years, a politician will harken back to the days of a strong local economy where high-qual
by vwcx 9y ago
And the same process will occur with the memories of their jobs. In X years, a politician will harken back to the days of a strong local economy where high-quality products were produced internally and provided a living wage. Slogans will be created ("MAGA" works in Australia) and campaigns will be run.
Nostalgia and lies are tricky bedfellows.
- emodendroket 9y agoI mean, it seems hard to disagree that things were better in Rust Belt cities before deindustrialization. You might quibble about why it happened or what should be done about it but Detroit went from being a beautiful, world-class city to a byword for crime and urban decay within living memory and plenty of smaller cities are worse off.
- closeparen 9y agoHm? Detroit ungentrified, housing became affordable, artist communities flourished, over-policing went away, corrupting corporate influences and (especially) real estate developers vanished. Detroit is everything every growing liberal city claims to want and writes public policy to work towards.
- emodendroket 9y agoYeah, that doesn't sound like an argument I actually want to engage with.
- nate_meurer 9y agoWasn't there a bankruptcy in there somewhere? > "corrupting corporate influences and (especially) real estate developers vanished" ... and were replaced with a level of government corruption (and incompetence) that would have been funny if it weren't so sad.
- gozur88 9y ago"Ungentrified"? Is that a euphemism for a place you'd want to live turning into the kind of place where you're afraid to go out of town for the weekend because all your stuff will be gone when you get back?
- emodendroket 9y agoHe's trying to be cute and say anyone who complains about rising rents is trying to turn their city into Detroit.
- closeparen 9y agoAnyone who complains that their city is too attractive to the (upper) middle class and thinks that public policy should seek to motivate people with good jobs to stay the hell away, yeah. I’ll complain about rising rents too, but from a place of “we need more housing” and not “people need to stop trying to live here.”