So, the BadOrangeMan gave us a few years' look at what
the nation could be like if run by a reasonably competent executive
who at least pretended to want America to succeed. Pretty cool,
wasn't it? But there was one worrisome aspect to the MAGA
heyday...
We founded the TEOTWAWKI Doomstead back in the last
century. We thought it was a comfortable distance from the nearest
Southern metropolis. But the housing boom continued and our
Podunk, rural county started being targeted by real estate
developers who looked-out over the cow pastures and cornfields and
envisioned oceans of ticky-tacky McMansions. And,
of course, or local Tin God politicians and bureaucrats
imagined all those new residents paying taxes, not to mention the
kickbacks from the aforementioned developers...
So everything started getting paved. The Sheriff's department
went from Andy and Barney to a veritable standing army.
They started putting in municipal water. Curbside garbage pickup.
All kinds of nonsense hillbillies have no use for. Of course, the
hicks wouldn't be around much longer. Rising property value
evaluations would soon drive their taxes up and them out!
Thank goodness for the big economic crash in the Dubya/Obama
terms! Can't easily get rid of the pavement. But the water
pipe they laid-out got recollected before it was buried. (Really
shoulda' swiped some of that. But didn't think of it at the time.)
The garbage pickup thing evaporated too. I had been afraid that our
isolated doomstead was going to be surrounded by city slickers. But
it got to stay woods and cows and corn a while longer.
With Trump's push for American energy independence and economic
growth, it looked like the menace of Urban Sprawl
might be on the horizon again, even though the Democrats had managed
to turn the nearest metropolis into a ghetto over the past couple
decades. But, thanks to the fall of the republic and the inevitable
collapse of civilized infrastructure that must follow, the whole
Exburbanite thing will be untenable.
Unlike some men, I don't particularly want to watch the
world burn... But, if I must, I'd prefer it was from a distance.
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