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Making sure Roslindale is for everyone
By adamg on Sun, 11/27/2016 - 9:55pm
A group of Roslindale residents meet on Wednesday to figure out how to keep the neighborhood inclusive, including, if it comes to it, how to "protect ourselves and our neighbors from harmful federal policies."
The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Roslindale Congregational Church, 25 Cummins Highway.
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An example of harmful federal
An example of harmful federal policy - Using the threat of force to keep neighborhoods inclusive.
I just blew my own mind.
Serious deja vu
All this hyperbole is making it feel like 2008 all over again, only it's the left that's going all end of days instead of the right.
Keep calm and carry on folks. Checks and balances have survived 240 years of American democracy. They won't fail us now either. The pendulum can only swing so far before gravity does its thing.
Not every American believes in global warming, but we tend to be fans of gravity -especially of the political variety.
Not trying to be trite, here,
Not trying to be trite, here, but I am seriously struggling to figure out where these checks are going to be coming from? Congress is lining up happily since they're being handed all their legislative goals on a platter and local gerrymandering and voting issues have been choking the 2-year majority possibility out of existence. I'd love some reassurance so please share.
Don't even need a single word
Just a single number - 2006 (which is when the Dems took over Congress after an all Republican Congress royally screwed up and overplayed their hand).
TBD - not saying the Dem/left/liberal agenda will have much power - but if the Republicans overplay their hand (and an all anything Prez/Congress always does), the country will give at least the Senate back to the Dems. The next election is only 24 months away (granted - not that Mass can any further help that cause with an all D delegation).
Again - the point is the Fox News crowd thought Obama would do the same 8 years ago (esp with an all Dem Congress). In the end about all that happened was one big good (but flawed) law. Trump isn't going to have a rubber stamp just because he put an artificial R after his name to run. Perhaps less of a rubber stamp than the Dems had and look what happened to them in 2010.
I'd like you to be right on this
...but the demographics and basically 'undemocratic' system we live in where rural, mid-country voters are over represented makes this much less likely than what happened in 2010. The Senate forecast is bad for the Dems in 2018 simply due to the states in question.
The best case scenario is that Trump is such a disaster than he moves usually safe GOP seats blue but then our country will be in much worse shape so that's cold comfort indeed.
Me too
I'd like me to be right on this as well. So far, so good. His tweetstorms would be funny if he weren't the president. McConnell and Ryan have to be having some interesting side conversations (I also hope one of those conversations is how to limit executive orders for ALL presidents).
I think Congress will keep him on a very short leash (although he'll bark up a storm at the slightest slight). After all, the man is a DOG.
My opinion is that our country (and state) always work best when there is one party somewhere that is the odd person out. All D or all R is very unhealthy.
Please don't insult dogs...
Please don't insult dogs...
How'd
...how'd those 240 years of checks and balances work out for non-white males?
how'd those 240 years of
That depends on what kind of non-white you are.
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111
In the above link, find a country of origin for the ethnicity you want to play victim, and compare it to the United States. If the country of ethnic origin you want to play victim is not on the chart (meaning it is so dismal there in that country that it would be poor sportsmanship to even show the stats), then things never worked out so well in their ethnic country of origin, thus things worked out comparatively GREAT in the United States.
You didn't really...
You didn't really make the absurd argument that African-Americans should be glad that their ancestors were captured and sold as slaves, did you?
Since you seem interested in history and the way things worked out, surely you're aware that if a country is invaded and colonized and its strongest, healthiest people are carried off as slaves, and then it's colonized some more, and then it's colonized SOME MORE, that it turns out rather different than if it had simply been left alone. IOW, we'll never know what Africa might have been. You can't point to Africa today and say that's all it ever had the potential to be.
Statements like yours are
Statements like yours are very easy to throw around, especially from your insulated condo in BoZo, er, SoBo. Let me ask you this, are you active in the community? Are you actively helping these non-white citizens? Or are you one of those arm chair liberals who sits in his very white building telling others how they ought to think, feel and act? Hmmm?
Hmm.
Checks and balances are now pretty much out the window. You do know Republicans have control over the three branches of government, correct?
Funny thing
I bet you 1) don't live anywhere near a city and, 2) would be the first to whine and cry that OMG POT SHOPS IN MY TOWN!!!! and WWAAHHHHHH FEDS HELP US!!!! if someone tried to open one, rather than see it as a local control issue.
Like 40b regulations?
Like regulations for low income that override local planning regulations?
You might have a point if you weren't wrong
40b doesn't apply in Boston.
40b is state
I was thinking similar on federal level.
If by "thinking"...
you mean "fantasizing," then sure. Enjoy your dreams.
"Making Sure Roslindale is for Everyone"
Man, I hate lines like this.
The way to make sure that Roslindale is for everyone has little to do with the federal government per se. It has a lot to do with making sure that the long term residents are not forced out by rising rents due to gentrification.
I'm just going to assume that everyone who supports this group also thinks that the Dapper O'Neil bust at the K of C is great, since he was a long time resident of Roslindale and after all, we need to make sure Roslindale is for everyone.