Posted on 04/22/2021 3:16:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Minneapolis is my home. My happiest memories are here. It’s where I learned to ride a bike, had my first date, received my high school diploma.
But today, I’m too afraid to even walk in my neighborhood by myself.
The ACE Hardware down the street? The one that I used to bike to in the summer? Robbed twice in the past five days.
The Walgreens next to my elementary school? Molotov cocktail thrown into it.
The Lake Harriet Bandshell, where we spent countless Mother’s Days? Homeless encampment popped up next door.
These are the things you don’t read about in the news.
Ten minutes from my house, at 38th and Chicago, there is still an autonomous zone. Police are not allowed to enter. Residents have died because medical authorities couldn’t get through, and carjackers (of which there are MANY) will speed into the zone to escape officer pursuit.
My favorite dinner theater canceled its production of Cinderella because it was “too white.”
My church — my beloved, tiny, Lutheran church — organized social justice marches for our congregation while refusing to reinstate in-person services (they’re still virtual, by the way).
And how about the week of the 2020 riots?
We lived under a curfew for days while looters seemingly roamed freely. Friends fled their home at 3:30 a.m. because the auto parts store behind them was on fire. And then we watched in horror as our City Council members demanded that the city defund the police — as they hired armed security for themselves.
I no longer recognize Minneapolis. I no longer want to live here. We are done, and I am leaving.
I’ve spent the past year watching this city crumble. Burning it wasn’t enough, I guess. Every day, I watched another piece of sanity and stability fall to the hysterical, bloodthirsty, self-righteous mob.
You distinguish between rioters and protestors? Racist. You do not want Marxist-inspired racial justice theories to be promoted in schools? Racist. You thought that maybe “Justice for George Floyd” should be left to the courts, and not mob rule? Super, super racist.
And where were our leaders providing stability and calm and confidence in the system? Nowhere to be found. What we did find were crazed politicians spouting fire and brimstone (I’m looking at you, Maxine Waters and John Thompson) and leaving us to pay the price.
Let me be clear: this city’s demise wasn’t just violent protests and burning buildings, or crime skyrocketing and businesses fleeing. It was also political indoctrination, hypocritical leadership, and the suppression of oppositional thought.
Any condemnation of the violence was denounced as “racist.” Billboards stating simply “Support MN Police” were brutally vandalized. Schools supported BLM walkouts for their students, then shut down in-person classes for fear of violent riots.
And all of this happened against the backdrop of our illogical, inconsistent, overly oppressive COVID-19 restrictions.
It’s easy to look at (for lack of a better word) disaster zones like these and mentally distance yourself from them. Yeah, that’s awful, but those people choose to live there. They’re the ones electing these leaders. This is their problem.
Yeah, it is. It is our problem.
And I can’t help but look around and wonder, “What happened here? Where exactly did it all go wrong?”
Was it the liberal mob? Identity politics? The cries of “RACIST!” when someone disagreed with a particular reaction or policy?
Was it conservative silence as the loudest voices got more and more radical?
Was it our acceptance that “we live in a blue area, this is just the way things are?”
How did it all happen so fast?
Whatever it was, I’m leaving this dark, surreal, twisted version of Minneapolis on Friday. And I pray to God that I never have to come back.
I pray she does not bring the liberal pathologies she is suffering to her new home, especially if it is a Red State. It sounds like she is a conservative person or maybe, just maybe, she is a conservative in the making.
Victor Davis Hanson keeps writing and speaking comparing these times to Nazi Germany in the early 30s, the French Jacobins, and the Bolsheviks. He talks about how the highly motivated small minority took over and destroyed entire countries and how fast the revolutions happened.
It probably plays into the left’s plan, but I understand where she’s coming from.
Wbere are you heading? I am getting out of ny state soon
Anyone here from Tennessee? I am hearing some good things
Welcome to Zimbabwe.
Loverboy John Edwards once talked of “two Americas”.
It’s happened but not in the way he imagined.
Another city destroyed by LIEberal policies.
NYC, Chicongo, St. Louis, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, LA, etc.
It’s almost like they want to destroy America...
And who did you vote for all these years?
Our family got the Hell out of Twin Cities awhile back.
Wonderful place, wonderful state, but its politicians have totally destroyed it.
"Herro, Chy Nah." "This is President Jao Baizou."
“City Council members demanded that the city defund the police — as they hired armed security for themselves. “
With taxpayer money, no doubt.
Like a Sci-Fi move where normal people live on this side of the fence and mutants live on the other
“...comparing these times to Nazi Germany in the early 30s, the French Jacobins, and the Bolsheviks. He talks about how the highly motivated small minority took over and destroyed entire countries and how fast the revolutions happened.”
This is exactly what my husband says. We need to fight back with every ounce of resolve we have.
The Triumph of the Will.
Sadly, no one cares. Those vacant homes and apartments will soon be home to thousands of Somali’s and other refugees. All taken care of by the US taxpayer. It’s all in the plan.
Tennessee is on the verge. If they don’t do something soon, what happened to Nashville and. Chattanooga will soon be everywhere. Another Texas or Georgia, take your pick.
Yep, that’s the pattern playing out everywhere. Libs voters ruin their states, move to less ruined ones, and then proceed to ruin them as much as the ones they left, oblivious to the fact that their voting habits had anything to do with it.
VDH is exactly right. Our situation is indeed very similar to pre-1917 Russia in that much of the upper-middle and upper class elite supports and excuses radicalism, anarchy and lawlessness. Much of the Russian elite rejected tsarism, the tsarist police and Russia’s feudal past as irredeemably backward, evil and deserving of annihilation just as our elite reject American history and institutions as irredeemably racist, evil and deserving of annihilation. This ain’t gonna end well.
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