Currently the federal US govt "owns" and controls vast amounts of territory in the USA. Now, as we wake up, we are realizing that the country has been conquered by a foreign power in DC that has a stranglehold on our resources. When/how do the people regain our land?
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Yeah, I feel as lovers of small government and private land, sometimes we want to shoot ourselves in the foot by giving land that belongs to all of us to a private developer. To transform a wilderness area into an Exxon oil field or to have our drinking water contaminated with fracking chemicals would give a lot of people joy just because it might anger some nature lovers. I feel currently wilderness and park land belongs more to the people than if it were handed over to billionaire developers.
I spend a lot of time in state, national, and federal parks. I've never felt like it isn't mine. But I don't feel the need to start cutting down trees or go mudding over graves in Arlington cemetery, or put up fences to keep others out or keep my cows in.
And none of that land would be accessible to me anymore if "we gave it back to the people", which would resort in it being bought up by developers (who are often part of those "elite" we fight against). Because those with the money, (who are often corrupt) would snap up everything they could. And many people today are having trouble putting gas in their cars and beans on their table, let alone buying some of the most desirable land on Earth.
Unless by "giving it back to the people" literally means that, and we're just going to start giving it away for free? Or do another Homestead Act type deal and we can pretend to be Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman from the movie Far and Away? In which case, I guess we have more in common with Socialists than anyone would have thought because that would be right up the alley of every Democrat/lib/socialist that I've ever known.
Guess I should get my tent out and mark off some days on the calendar before someone starts throwing up a McDonald's or Starbucks or some shitty subdivision on my favorite camping spots.
To be able to drive for miles in a protected land, throw a tent, camp under the stars without having to check in or pay someone, well, that's a beautiful thing.