01-11-2023, 07:34 PM
(01-11-2023, 07:03 PM)bravado Wrote: If it can be boiled down a bit too much probably, there's a lot of mediocrity here that is just accepted for a lot of reasons - but things could be a lot better. We don't have to compare ourselves to Detroit when we say that things could be better.
Bleeding hearts, tax cheapskates, carbrains, heartless suburbanites, the whole spectrum is here. I think a lot of bad things have been covered up by relative prosperity and "boom times" that will be much more difficult to deal with now that resources are constrained. There's a middle ground between bulldozing tents in winter and ceding all public land to squatters and we need a lot better leadership than we have now to find it.
I also think that there is a point where feedback and engagement really is counter-productive, we need some courage and conviction from whoever makes the plans.
This is on point. We need leadership. Public engagement is not inherently bad, but it is not a solution nor a substitute for leadership, and frankly, the way we do it, you might as well call it wealth engagement...it isn't the public.