Chuck this is after the fact and about your pod cast. You keep saying that the Senators Baseball Stadium cleaned up the Anocistia Waterfront. That is not exactly correct. The waterfront was rehabilitation started when NAVSEA moved 12,000 jobs to the Turret Building in the Navy Yard. Along with all those jobs came the defense contractors that suck from the DOD tit. I was there when about 1,000 left NAVSEA when they would not take the move from Crystal City to the Navy Yard. It was not a safe place to be. When we first got there there were burnt out building from the 1968 riots along the main street in front of the Navy Yard and that was in 2002. We even got free parking inside the fence because no one wanted to walk from the Metro station to the main gate. So no the Baseball team did not revitalise that slum area, it was all the high paying government and contractor jobs and the fact that, that created the demand that the DC police started to run off all the DC trash in the neighborhood. Just wanted to let you know that your baseball team did not clean up that neighborhood it was the workers that were forced to work there. Best, Lynn
Great idea Chuck. It’s easy to talk about a solution, but how do we get it done? Some of this can be legislated like rank choice voting, but who is going to stick their neck out and start these two other parties? I could see Adam Kinzinger starting the moderate right wing party maybe even with Liz Cheney involved. But who starts the left moderate party? And do we really need four? I think I understand your rationale, but can we sustain four political parties?
With the incentives of the system the way they are, neither party has to become a big tent. But that has lead to the growing independent movement today.
That’s why the INC along with all our coalition partners are building infrastructure to allow independent candidates to champion a new generation of problem solvers.
Condolences for your loss of Ruby, I can see in her eyes she was loved and gave love.
Chuck this is after the fact and about your pod cast. You keep saying that the Senators Baseball Stadium cleaned up the Anocistia Waterfront. That is not exactly correct. The waterfront was rehabilitation started when NAVSEA moved 12,000 jobs to the Turret Building in the Navy Yard. Along with all those jobs came the defense contractors that suck from the DOD tit. I was there when about 1,000 left NAVSEA when they would not take the move from Crystal City to the Navy Yard. It was not a safe place to be. When we first got there there were burnt out building from the 1968 riots along the main street in front of the Navy Yard and that was in 2002. We even got free parking inside the fence because no one wanted to walk from the Metro station to the main gate. So no the Baseball team did not revitalise that slum area, it was all the high paying government and contractor jobs and the fact that, that created the demand that the DC police started to run off all the DC trash in the neighborhood. Just wanted to let you know that your baseball team did not clean up that neighborhood it was the workers that were forced to work there. Best, Lynn
Here’s an example of how the Left doesn’t want a “big tent”; just an Ideological Pure, one….
https://substack.com/@krisweinschenker850441/note/c-128907329?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1dxio
Great idea Chuck. It’s easy to talk about a solution, but how do we get it done? Some of this can be legislated like rank choice voting, but who is going to stick their neck out and start these two other parties? I could see Adam Kinzinger starting the moderate right wing party maybe even with Liz Cheney involved. But who starts the left moderate party? And do we really need four? I think I understand your rationale, but can we sustain four political parties?
Angus king? Shapiro? Beshear?
With the incentives of the system the way they are, neither party has to become a big tent. But that has lead to the growing independent movement today.
That’s why the INC along with all our coalition partners are building infrastructure to allow independent candidates to champion a new generation of problem solvers.