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As much as I despise the autocratic excesses of the modern neo-Dixiecrat party and its bevy of sycophants that comment here routinely on IBJ, I can at least step away from my own prejudices enough to state–without having read the full article this time around (I did read the one from about 10 days ago), that this seems every bit like another example of the state overstepping its authority, treading on municipalities’ rights to manage affairs that are supposed to be municipal in nature. I can say this as well about the special tax district for downtown Indy–or any other downtown-centric legislation–which yields results to which I’m ambivalent (no right turns on red) or deeply opposed (the “no barrier shelter” junkie haven).
These are still aspects of governance which a city should be allowed to engage in. The State should butt out.
Would that the aforementioned sycophants would be able to speak with similar moderation when it comes to principles rather than the “by any means necessary” approach favored by today’s left. They won’t show such moderation. But then, they’re much more extreme and hyperpartisan than a classical liberal like me.
Give us those Indiana example, Lauren. The only notable left … left in Indiana is the four corners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
so basically the state is run by idiots who only pass laws that benefit them and their cronies who buy them IU/Purdue tickets…. but the left is worse?
JJ, the problem is the left in Portland.
Not Portland Indiana, county seat of Jay County … Portland Oregon.
That’s what we are supposed to be commenting on … on the website … of the Indianapolis Business Journal. Portland, Oregon.
Put down the thesaurus, Lauren.
Frankie, Joe, sweet children everywhere:
In 2024, of course the left is worse. And I can say this while having broadly supported Dems about 60-70% of the time as recently as the mid 2010s, and while intensely disliking a huge portion of the Indiana GOP. Republicans take a hammer to their genitals repeatedly and then look up with an imploring wince: “Why did that hurt so bad?” And I’ll say it once again: The. State. Should. Butt. Out.
Beyond that, your reflexive defensiveness proves my point. My entire basis of writing here was to criticize what the Indiana GOP is doing, even though half the bobbleheads here brand me as “far right”.
But I dedicate even a modicum of criticism to the donkeys, and they get fired up like their President Joe in one of his rare lucid moments. Not a breath to criticize their own party, whose massive shortcomings explain why–even amidst their obvious efforts to rig elections like they always so (Jim Crow habits die hard, or never die)–may still usher in a Grover Cleveland presidency for #45/#47.
Yet again Joe predictably hides behind the Portland allegations, as though they’re baseless. All you have to do is see the press releases from Boss Hogsett’s toadies; they WANT Indy to be more like Portland OR. And they’re getting their wish. They can’t see the junkie-tent squalor, the tolerance for open human excrement that gives Bangalore a run for its money. The yawning vacancies downtown. Three businesses close and one opens; all the donkeys do is bray: “See? A new business opening! Downtown is coming back!”
Given that the communitarian orientation of leftism encourages this hivemindedness and punishing people who step out of line, it’s no surprise that the chattering classes on IBJ are just as blind to these third-world conditions as they are in Portland.
That’s never your basis for criticism, Lauren, and it wasn’t in the above either.
You can’t comment on anything without dragging Democrats into it. A simple story about what happens in Indiana – the uniparty punching down on local governments, both Republicans and Democrats alike, because they’ve got nothing else to offer voters.
Focus and stay on topic once in a while. And go on being the biggest enabler for the uniparty around while claiming you hate them, just like Beau Baird claiming that this is really an anti-puppy mill bill.
One of the opponents of the bill who testified against it lambasted committee members for playing on their phones during testimony. A rare moment of honestly coming from an Indiana resident delivered to the people in power.
IMO if a legislator wants to play on their phone, they can stay home and not show up. Or preferably, not hold office, resign, and let someone motivate who wants to do the job into the seat.
Those same legislatures likely spend hours a year on their pedestals lambasting school age children for being on their phone….
Outrage is usually masked projection when it comes to politicians