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I don’t mean to undersell the large scale problems like poverty, crime, and a lack of public transportation (GM and Ford prefer people to buy cars, weird), don’t get me wrong.
But I’d still recommend a visit if you’re considering moving there. Detroit really does have a lot to offer.
I mean, the fresh water is an obvious draw. There’s a smaller lake named lake st. clair that’s large but not a great lake nearby. The Detroit river is relatively narrow so you can escape to Canada if need be.
There’s a ton of history. Some great commie art (Rivera). Interesting urban art (Heidelberg). Motown, obviously. MC5. Death. A long history of great musicians.
The area still has manufacturing capacity if shit hits the fan but it doesn’t go mad max right away. Militant labor history. Still a strong labor town despite neolibs gutting a lot of it.
It’s affordable. People are relatively friendly for a bigger city. And they’ve been through a lot of shit already. Michael Moore (our favorite radlib) called places like Detroit and Flint canaries in the coal mine, like, a decade or two ago, so they’re probably better prepared to weather adversity than a coastal “brunch town” (not sure what I’m trying to convey, but I think you get the picture).
Plus, if shit somehow gets better, you still have the same stuff (probably on a smaller scale) that any other city has to offer.
Biiiiig urban ag city, too, if you’re into that. Urban farms are everywhere.
I always thought it was weird that leftists just brushed off Anarcho-capitalist weirdos. That’s pretty much where this shit is headed at this point.
Remember when everyone under W (including Alan Greenspan) said they were Ayn Rand stans?
*Rand Paul was literally named after that dumb shit lol.
Dreher wrote an entire ass book based on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. MacIntyre, a philosopher who was heavily influenced by Marx, went on to shit on Dreher’s The Benedict Option:
https://twitter.com/SamRochadotcom/status/1273818391992659968?s=20
Then Dreher chose to do some real notice me senpai shit only to get fucking owned again by his hero:
https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1274410673183821825?s=20