> Washington, DC, where I call home, has reached its saturation point.
> Traffic is miserable and our mass transit system, which is pretty damn
> big, can't keep up with the population. The pollution here is getting
> intolerable. The rents and home prices are astronomical and I would have
> to imagine that the stress level is high for everybody.
But that's only because (1) the rich aren't taxed and the poor aren't subsidized by a generous welfare state, (2) the mass transit system is starved of funds -- e.g. the Landover station escalator is broken and won't be officially repaired for *five weeks*, it's like downtown Lagos or something, and (3) the oiligarchy would rather spend $350 billion on war toys than pony up the money for clean energy.
Cities aren't the problem; the problem is the neoliberalism which turns cities into capitalist kill-zones.
> And this is the capitol of capitalism.
This is a Second World city of a third-rate ex-empire with a fourth-rate electoral system, about to enter collections agency Gehenna, at the hands of repo-men with Swiss accents. Enjoy the ride, because it's all downhill from here!
-- Dennis