Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Why Democrats (not candidates) need to STOP ignoring and/or demonizing rural voters... [View all]ancianita
(36,055 posts)same story. Not the tourist despoiling part, but the corporate extractors' part. He lives in Silver City, and is now vice chair in the Grant County Democratic Party.
My belief is that the more we understand the history of who first claimed mineral rights in this country and/or continent, the more solid will be our legal/political course. When following the money, we usually learn that it hardly ever goes to local extractors. The laws and policies that enable extractors to be "first to market" on public lands has been another area the public needs to explore when resisting these invasions and destructions.
It seems to be mystified -- likely because it's at global bank and treaty levels -- and every generation seems to have to learn, on their own, all over again, an important area of our history -- land use. What my son and I read points to global claims made generations ago, which now live on under cover; thus, our confoundedness. As if we "can't handle the truth."
I don't believe that any dominators will give us the tools to end our land domination. Nor the politicians who, knowingly or not, leave them alone or benignly neglect rural folk.
So, imo, we who live on these lands have to go at land base control and despoilment issues as teachers of the public. I really don't trust that our politicians will lead the way on ending misuse of public lands. I'm going to start searching for histories on this.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden