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.
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Unfortunately, that’s pretty much spot-on.
Too late...we went to Idaho! Family roots there go back to 1920 (even though there are no immediate living relatives there any more).
[Welcome to Zimbabwe.]
And that, is exactly where the Left are taking this country.
In a hurry.
When those who still have some “normalcy bias” finally wake up, it will be far, far too late.
Exactly right. BLM and antifa are the most obvious ones, but there are hundreds of like-minded groups and foundations working with the same goal.
Discover The Networks, A PROJECT OF THE DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER.
I’d consider the sources there.
“Where to move to, though?”
Idaho is still mostly sane, but it is under vigorous assault by the commies. I’m not sure how much longer the nation can hold out.
Don’t disarm like the White Russians did.
THE RATS ARE THE CREATORS AND THE ENCOURAGERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE ROT. Where there is rot there are people who beg to be saved. They know its easier to dumb down than it is to pick someone up. They are despicable humans who could care less about this country and care more for how they can steal and continue it within their families.
I was born in Minneapolis, and lived there a good part of my life. It started getting really crazy in the 1980s. But we stayed and raised our kids there. In 2001 we had finally had enough.
Another American $hithole brought to you by Democrats
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Coeur d'Alene Median list price in March 2021: $799,000
One year median list price change: +82%
Unfortunately, the soaring property values are making property taxes soar (no California Prop 13) and people are getting taxed out of their homes.
Sorry, it finally dawned on me you are asking that question of the woman who wrote the article, not me.
I went there on business quite often in the 80s and it was nice, but I could see the early signs of inevitable corruption and liberal decay starting.
I’m going to read that and comment. I don’t understand why prices would be going up in and around Minneapolis. But before I do that, will you please tell me the HTML secret for turning an image into a link?
Maybe you all should stay in your state and fix the problems you helped create. Rather than being your liberal views to us.
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