We Stand With Our Friends in Minnesota
If you support attacks on our community, you are not welcome in our lives
True confession: We left our long term hometown of Minneapolis, in part, because we saw this coming. We have, for years, been predicting social collapse in the USA. The reasons we have been predicting that are far beyond anything we are seeing today from the Trump regime and their collection of sycophants. Click on the Climate Section of this website to see some of the other reasons we have predicted social collapse was coming. It is not possible to have a functioning society when large swaths of the population gobble up propaganda dished out 24/7 by the likes of Fox “News.” (It is worth pointing out when we say so that Fox has testified in court that it is not a news organization. Again, in court, they say their personalities are “entertainers” not journalists and that people would need to be morons to believe them.)
When an electorate is that far down the rabbit hole and ignorant; when so many people are incapable of showing any level of care or compassion for others in their community; when people in charge intentionally stoke fear and hatred with violent rhetoric; when a president pardons violent criminals and recruits them to service as his Gestapo, then all of the key threads that hold society together are straining or unraveling. Sadly, the situation is even worse than that.
We learned during the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder that there is a sizable numbers of alt-right white supremacists hell-bent on starting a race war in the USA so that they can try to re-do the Civil War. As we have written elsewhere, we also learned that those same people will settle for nothing less than total control of everything. If they didn’t get it, we predicted, they would initiate the war they have been wanting for decades.
That ignorant, hateful, violent and careless people would want to pick on the beautiful communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota is also not surprising. With the overall high standard of living there; the high level of education and art present in the community; the high level of voluntarism and community involvement; with the beautiful diversity that comes from welcoming immigrants from around the world, Minnesota’s “Twin Cities” represent beauty, art, education, diversity and community, the opposite of everything the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers in MAGA stand for. The Twin Cities also has some amazing intelligent progressive voices, the exact kind that drive MAGA goons crazy.
Putting all of that together made it easy for us to see that Minneapolis and St. Paul would continue to be the targets of these vile humans, which is why we chose to move to a smaller community with many of the same lovely attributes of the Twin Cities. Yet, watching the horrors unfolding in Minnesota from the relative safety of our new home brings no real comfort.
Our hearts ache watching the US Government openly assault family and friends. We are fearful for (and also incredibly proud of) those in Minnesota that are stepping up to help protect the most vulnerable people there.
Though we are not physically there, we stand with you and will do anything and everything in our power to help you. If any of you need anything, please let us know. Be strong. Resist. Resist. Resist.
To the MAGA among us, here is a message: If you continue to support the Trump regime, in spite of the rape, pedophilia, grifting, lying, cheating, killing, warring and now even attacking our own neighbors and friends then we believe you are horrible human beings. We do not mean that in a hyperbolic way. We mean rationally and objectively you lack all of the things that make people good, things like caring, compassion, honesty, empathy, thoughtfulness. You are unwelcome in any aspect of our lives. You have proven yourselves unworthy of the respect or considerations you so willingly refuse to give others. That literally makes you the entire problem with our country.