Blame the demise and “isolation” of the Motor City not on the length of the commute, but rather on Leftist/Progressive ideology and 60 years of Democrat control through unionization at every level of the bureaucracy. That, more than anything else, is the real explanation for the loss of community.
This so reminds me of my geography lectures with Assoc Prof Simon Kingham at the University of Canterbury a couple of years ago. Prof Kingham was not only a geographer with a passion for sustainable mass transit, but an evangelical Christian who wanted to promote a stronger sense of community in a place where car ownership levels were among the highest in the world. Yes, God is faithful to strip away the barriers that divided - in the year since September 4, 2010, half of the city of Christchurch has been destroyed in a long-running series of earthquakes that no one ever expected, which has brought people together in ways we have not seen for decades. But why should it take the destructiveness of a natural disaster for us to return to the way that God designed us to be?
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Blame the demise and “isolation” of the Motor City not on the length of the commute, but rather on Leftist/Progressive ideology and 60 years of Democrat control through unionization at every level of the bureaucracy. That, more than anything else, is the real explanation for the loss of community.
This so reminds me of my geography lectures with Assoc Prof Simon Kingham at the University of Canterbury a couple of years ago. Prof Kingham was not only a geographer with a passion for sustainable mass transit, but an evangelical Christian who wanted to promote a stronger sense of community in a place where car ownership levels were among the highest in the world. Yes, God is faithful to strip away the barriers that divided - in the year since September 4, 2010, half of the city of Christchurch has been destroyed in a long-running series of earthquakes that no one ever expected, which has brought people together in ways we have not seen for decades. But why should it take the destructiveness of a natural disaster for us to return to the way that God designed us to be?
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