Drain the swamp? Why? What do we care? ?

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[Don't tell me we're draining the swamp. Don't. 

Show me, explain it to me like I'm a 3-year-old. 

Show me the life or death passion. 

I'll wait.]



It could be deliberate, it could be just lazy habit. Who has the time and resources internal and external, to entice city council and the city manager, or to make their life uncomfortable?


Those in the middle and upper income brackets, the top 10%.


What do they care if the swamp fills? They're up on dry land. They are not going to be eaten.


The 90% are being eaten, and they lack the means to fight for the swamp being drained.


No? This is wrong? The middle and income bracket folks aren't stupid. They aren't blind. They don't have to care.


Fact is, if the 90% get eaten, driven out of the city, it opens up land for the middle and upper income brackets to bring in more like them, Rising real estate values, real estate and contractor revenues from tearing down crumbling houses and replacing it with more expensive.


People don't have to think of themselves as mean, or evil, to do this. We just have to deny that it's happening.


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