200,000 alcoholics can't be wrong: the (losing?) battle to keep Tacoma shitty.

AuthorBagge, Peter
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AND MAKE NO MISTAKE SEATTLE IS NOW ENTIRELY RUN BY PEOPLE WHO EXPLOIT THE AFFLUENCE, GUILT, AND NAIVETE OF ITS YOUNG TECH WORKFORCE TO IMPLEMENT ASTRONOMICALLY EXPENSIVE, DOOMED-TO-FAIL SOCIAL ENGINEERING PROJECTS.

BUT IT TURNS OUT THOSE PROPOSED FUEL PLANTS WERE ILL-SUITED FOR THE PORT OF TACOMA--AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE CREATED THAT MANY JOBS, EITHER! SO KUDOS TO THE PROTESTERS FOR SHUTTING THEM DOWN !

AND LIKE FAR TOO MANY OTHER CITIES' ELECTED OFFICIALS, TACOMA'S "LEADERS" ARE FAR TOO WILLING TO LET PRIME INDUSTRIAL LAND SIT VACANT FOR YEARS WHILE WAITING FOR SOME MASSIVE "DREAM PROJECT" TO COME ALONG...

STILL, THE PROTESTERS ARE MAINLY DRIVEN BY AN OPPOSITION TO FOSSIL FUELS IN GENERAL, AS WELL AS A FEAR AND LOATHING OF INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS THAT BORDERS ON RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, RESULTING IN AN EXCESS OF EMOTION AND HYPERBOLE AT THE VARIOUS PUBLIC MEETINGS I ATTENDED ON THIS TOPIC...

ALL TOWN MEETINGS ARE DOMINATED BY LOUD, SELF-RIGHTEOUS AX GRINDERS WHO USUALLY GET THEIR WAY DUE TO THE LACK OF ANYONE QUESTIONING THEIR DEMANDS...

THEIR SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT IS BOTTOMLESS, SUCH AS THOSE WHO'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE...

EVERY DEMAND AND/OR ACCUSATION IS AN APPLAUSE LINE TOO, NOW THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN CONDITIONED TO PANDER TO EVERY SELF-DECLARED "VICTIM"...

AND EVERYONE MANAGES TO EVOKE THE CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, THE HOMELESS, AND THE HANDICAPPED IN THEIR SCREEDS, TO GUARANTEE THAT THERE'LL BE NO PUSHBACK.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT MOST TACOMANS REALLY CARE ABOUT, JUST VISIT ONE OF THE...

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