It’s almost a week old – but this is the most glorious smackdown of urban enviroweenies ever.
Of course, it’ll take more than a great op-ed; it’ll take defeating the DFL – since those enviroweenies are the ones that control the DFL, and are strangling the livelihoods of just about every Minnesotan north of US 2 that isn’t working for government or a non-profit.
Heard this guy on the lesser known (in MBerg’s formulation) non-state sanctioned talk radio station the other morning. Jonah Goldberg noted the other day that among the reasons Republicans lose elections is that their candidates lack the ability to tell a story. This guy has and can tell a story.
“So, if you’re a mining opponent, what is your plan to see Ely survive?”
How often does the Left (from the enviro-whacko’s, to the dimbulb DFL’rs, to just plain awful people like Dog Gone) respond to criticism of their pipe dreams (literally, they must have been hitting the hash pipe for some of these schemes) by requiring their critics present a detailed alternative laying out all costs and benefits for the next 100 years?
The Left halts this mining project and is not asked what their alternative is. Perhaps because we have been following their plan it look where it’s gotten us: People abandoning Ely as a place to live their lives.
When I moved to MN I was told that the Left here would like nothing more than having everyone (except themselves) to live in an Eastern Bloc style concrete high-rise apartment building with the only green space being limited to yards of the commissars. Whenever I hear about people living (“co-existing”) in our green spaces on state sanctioned talk radio, it’s about some wealthy person who decided to give up their ill gotten (and likely inherited) gains and go the full Unabomber, living like a hermit in some lean-to in the BWCA. Well, wolves gotta eat too, I guess.
That article was a masterpiece, Mitch. I’m amazed the RedStar even printed it. As a proud resident of God’s Country myself, I know a lot of people who are tired of having their strings pulled by Twin Cities leftists who then pat us on our heads and tell us to have a nice day.
The problem is, though, that there are too many of us in my part of the state who simply vote for the D because it’s just what they do. The challenge is getting some of these people — who love to hunt and fish and shoot guns and are even socially conservative to a point — to realize what their lockstep voting has done to their communities.
The opposition is nothing new. Various lakes and other recreationally-oriented lands in the 218 area code have long been looked at as MN’s communal
“cabin”, primarily for those in executive style houses with small yards. That is, those with enough money to spend time there, but not enough to buy any of it.
The BWCA is the state’s natural science museum, kept as God (or Gaia) and Wellstone intended it, except for those nasty, scary (but necessary) forest fires, just in case a busload of inner-city school kids ever want to see it, or a metro area neo-hippie wants to brave the mosquitos for a couple days every few years.
Apparently the locals don’t realize that they are the “help,” expected to keep gas stations, general stores, and bait shops open for the once-a-year visitors from the metro area. Ungrateful lot. Don’t they know that their ability to speak a colorful local dialect is the only reason they haven’t been replaced yet?
However, once this blasphemey of Earth rape is approved, I wonder where the job applicants will come from?