People might hesitate to run because they feel unqualified, worry about the time commitment, or fear losing. I’d argue those concerns shouldn’t stop anyone.
It’s hard to describe what the current moment feels like for people in the Twin Cities. The scale of the economic impact and the psychological terror falls somewhere between 9/11 and COVID.
For those who are not familiar with these good folks, they are the welcoming faces you see when you walk through the main entrance of Fairview Hospital.
It will not be the courts, laws, councils, a different political party, or any of the old systems and structures that will rescue us from the chaos. What is arising is arising so it may be seen and then may be released.
In the age of Trump, we see people with deep financial resources who have benefited from white privilege using the courts to continue that form of discrimination.
I feel it imperative to write something so I can become more than a passive observer railing impotently at my television, watching government-propagated lawlessness savage a city and its population.
Alex Pretti could have been any of us, a citizen exercising his rights and cruelly killed by an occupying, untrained, and vindictive private army directed by a president with no concern for the rights of this country's citizens or those of legal or illegal immigrants.
Two words representing opposite forces determine the probably of extinction in the broadest sense—that is, extinction of a business (bankruptcy), a political system, a social state, or a species. The words are complacency and adaptation.
Illegal immigration, increasing healthcare costs, and ICE's and law enforcement's use of excessive force in non-life-threatening situations are all potentially solvable.
Democratic societies do not accept secret police behavior simply because it is directed at unpopular or politically vulnerable groups. History shows that once such practices are normalized, they rarely remain confined.
