"Put enough regulatory pressure on natural-resource industries so that many are forced out of business, and you will also destroy the livelihoods of the people who make their living in those industries. Eventually, enough will leave and decamp for urban areas in search of work. This is how rural cleansing works, and the people behind 30 by 30 know it. Depopulated rural areas are exactly what they want."

Quite right.

I don't know why they limit themselves to an 'open letter.' "What you're doing is against the law. Please stop." These people have been breaking the law non-stop for decades. They are counting on US following the law knowing full well that THEY will not. They use our respect for the rule of law against us. Another letter? What the hell is the point? The governors should instead put their foot down and tell the Feds that not only will they not be helped by state resources, but state resources will be used to oppose them. That would be just a start.

I just don't understand why so many people think that lib-prog-dems merely disagree with us, but are operating in good faith. Ie, "It's just politics." No. They are operating in bad faith. Very, very, very bad faith.