In any case, members of the county's "liberal party" at least should dissociate themselves from one off-key criticism of the proposal by some in their ranks: that TND would unwisely allow developers to build modest homes that are weak tax generators. How elitist is
that
reasoning.Let's hope we hear no such talk from Stafford alumni of idealistic Woodstock Nation, whose indelible image is of stringy-haired girls and concave-chested boys all intertwined like the denizens of a bait can. Heaven forbid that some of those undiscriminating Aquarians of yore have grown too persnickety in their autumn years to share the county with representatives of the lower orders.
But, then again, we quit believing in the existence of liberals awhile back--when neighborhood after neighborhood in assertedly progressive and solidly Democratic Fredericksburg bellowed at a displaced homeless shelter in search of a new site: "Not in our neighborhood!"