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 saw this coming in 1975 with the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act smoking ban and all the filthy, filthy left wing democrats they keep electing. Pawlenty was sort of a breath of fresh air but oh no, they couldn’t stand freedom.
Maybe you all should stay in your state and fix the problems you helped create. Rather than being your liberal views to us.
Feminists and the opportunists supporting them passed many laws, policies and new social customs to pave the way for what you’re seeing.
“Robbed twice in the past five days.”
I can’t imagine but just who were the robbers?
Dear Leaver,
You most likely voted for all the crap that turned your city unrecognizeable.
We cant allow you to leave and do the same thing to dome other city.
A lot of those areas seem like vacation hotspots for wealthy people. Like they say, “location, location, location”. Even in my area here in Ohio, prices seem a bit higher than they ought to though which is good for me I guess. The p[rice of more desirable waterfront locations in the area definitely beating inflation and Ohio land is way outpacing inflation from what I’m seeing on the internet at least. You could probably get it for less but the asking price seems to be quite high and the land itself isn’t typically all that impressive unless you’re on lake Erie. I sold two houses in 2019 and did very well actually. despite that, 10-20 acres in Ohio still seems out of reach.
I can understand that. I’ve lived in America all my life and I used to actually be proud of being an American. Not anymore.
This is exactly what happened in detroit decades ago. This crap is NOT happening in detroit today.
Why?
Been there, done that. It’s taken 2 generations for the wounds to begin to heal.
Seattle, portland, minneapolis and the other cities allowing this crap to happen, i only have one thing to say to you...
Welcome to New Detroit...
And everyone is letting them
Can’t lay this solely at the feet of the Rats. The Repukes enable them and have done so for years.
Let’s cut to the chase. Everybody who is not mentally retarded knows that when government does not mandate the immediate arrest of all persons who break the law, those who wish to do so will proceed to break whatever law they choose. It’s common sense girls, not rocket science we’re talking here.
What exactly are you willing to do? Vote? No one is at the point of being willing to take up arms and that’s probably what it would take.
Avoid Shelby and Davidson counties like the plague.
“But today, I’m too afraid to even walk in my neighborhood by myself.”
What did you expect you big-city, urban, left wing democrat voting idiot?
Liberal refugees, don’t vote for what you fled
Come on, man! BLM and AntiFa are only ideas.
Anyone here from Tennessee? I am hearing some good things
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Hopefully one of messages you’re hearing loud and clear is that they do NOT wish to have Marxist-inspired, BLM/Antifa jackass Democrats from up north bringing their leftist garbage into Tennessee.
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I lived in Bremerton, Washington for 15 years after I retired from the Army. I worked in Sodom on the Sound (formerly Seattle). I worked with some of the most liberal of Marxists that I had ever met. Of course, in the Army I did not bump into a bunch of Marxists. I served mainly during the Cold War. But, I did not know a tinkers D about Seattle much either. 15 years was all I could handle. The minute m wife retired from her job, BOOM we were GONE!!! I have never even thought of going back. My wife still has family there and has gone back for a funeral and a wedding, but not me. I told her the minute I left over the state line, I would never come back and I never have. I am back in Alabama now. Going into enemy country is not on my agenda. I will stay safely here. If you want to get out of enemy territory, come on down to Bama. Most Christian state in these US of A’s and most Conservative state. We and Ole Miss bounce back and forth on the Most Christian, but we got the most conservative covered. Plenty of good places to live down here. And, we don’t burn the neighborhoods down.
have they pulled down the mary tyler moore statue yet?
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