One of the few things I remember from my elementary school social studies classes was learning about ‘slash-and-burn agriculture’. I was thinking about that today, as a friend was lamenting all the progressives who are fleeing cities where ‘peaceful protests’ are taking place, and heading for rural areas… like my friend’s town in New Hampshire.
A simple definition of slash-and-burn agriculture is:
A form of shifting agriculture where the natural vegetation is cut down and burned as a method of clearing the land for cultivation, and then, when the plot becomes infertile, the farmer moves to a new fresh plat and does the same again.
Doesn’t this sound like what progressives do all the time? They take over a city, and more or less destroy it. Then they move out to the suburbs, and do the same again. When they’ve used up a whole state, they move to other states, and do the same again.
Until recently, it’s just been a metaphor. But with cities actually being burned, it’s becoming more of a literal description, isn’t it?
