FIELD OF DREAMS

A PROGRESSIVE PRESENTED HIS EXPLANATION FOR CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA - URBAN SPRAWL. HE PONTIFICATED ABOUT HIS CENTRAL THEME OF THE "INTEGRITY OF BUILT LANDSCAPE." HE THOUGHT WE IDIOTS CALLED HOMEOWNERS WOULD BUY HIS CRAZY THEORY SUPPORTED BY SKEWED STATISTICS THAT CITY PLANNERS SHOULD RE-INSTALL SMALL TOWN LIVING SPACES WITH A FEELING OF COMMUNITY, CENTRAL SQUARES AND PUBLIC TRANSIT TO SAVE ENERGY AND THE PLANET. ABRACADABRA, AMERICA WOULD BE A WHOLLY, MORAL COUNTRY AGAIN.

I SUGGEST THAT THE CULTURE OF DEATH, THE VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA, RAP MUSIC, FEEL-GOOD-ISM AND THE LOSS OF THE INTACT FAMILY, NOT URBAN SPRAWL, HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE DESCENT OF MEN AND WOMAN. ALSO, I AM AWARE OF THE ALREADY EXISTING INTACT COMMUNITIES - ESPECIALLY IN INNER CITIES - WHERE RAMPANT CRIMES DISPROVE THIS 'DREAMER'S NOTION.

IF ARCHITECTS ACTUALLY BUILT THESE URBAN DREAM COMMUNITIES, WOULD DWELLERS COME? NO, THEY WOULD GO WEST, WEST AS MANIFESTED IN THE DESTINY OF ANY SANE RESIDENT LIVING A CROWDED, FISHBOWL EXISTENCE IN AN INNER OR BIG CITY. IT'S HUMAN NATURE! TURN 'EM LOOSE, I SAY, CITIZENS WITH THEIR MONIES, TO DECIDE WHAT CONSTITUTES THEIR DREAMS. PROGRESSIVES, HOWEVER, MASK THEIR COMMUNISTIC CONCEPTS WITH OBSCURE PHRASES LIKE "INTEGRITY OF BUILT LANDSCAPE." BY GOLLY, DESTROYING FREEDOM OF CHOICE IS NO OBSTACLE FOR THEM. I AM THANKFUL THAT I HAVE ALREADY PUT DOWN MY COUNTRY ROOTS. NO PROGRESSIVE WILL CONFISCATE MY EMINENT DOMAIN.