"Yesterday, I attended a well-publicized town hall meeting of the Detroit Regional Transit Authority in Mt. Clemens designed to seek public input and support for a new tax on your home to expand mass transit.
19 citizens showed up (including me) out of a Macomb population of 865,000.
Plus 4 RTA employees, 2 RTA board members, and two reporters.
Cult-like religion was on full display as RTA staff spouted "facts" about the "demand" for more mass transit - saying things like "Residents of Ray Township will benefit because more mass transit money given to rural communities will help those residents get to jobs in places like Troy, Detroit, etc.".
I know Ray Township. Absolutely nobody who lives there is car-less if they work. It is mostly farms. I asked the RTA guy who made the statement how many workers in Ray Twp. need help getting to jobs. He admitted that the RTA had no data, but assured me he had heard so anecdotally. In other words, "Just believe".
During Q&A, one lady in the audience asked why the new RTA plan did not include extending the Detroit People Mover to Mt. Clemens. You have to live in Michigan to understand how preposterously ludicrous such a question is. Yet, the entire meeting was about faith and believing and embracing only the facts that support the One True Faith.
While at least two of the other 18 citizens attending opposed the RTA plan, I assumed the other 16 citizens supported it based on their zen-like state when discussing their god (plus a guy wearing his 'Green Party' pin).
Both the left and the right and libertarians have a fringe element that embraces tenets of their political views in a cult-like manner by seeing the world only through the prism of their doctrine. And the left's worship was on full display among the tiny group at yesterday's town hall.
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