Voting Via Feet
By Mitch Berg
Borrowed with permission from a friend on social media:
When I moved to Minnesota in May 2010, I had just graduated college and taken a job offer in Edina. In the aftermath of the Great Recession jobs were scarce, especially in Milwaukee, and a young man trying to make it on his own had to be willing to uproot his life for greater opportunities.
I joined a local Christian urban mission and moved into a neighborhood filled with violence and poverty and beautiful people who God loves. I was enthralled by the vivid colors of Minneapolis, the hustle and bustle, the natural beauty of the city combined with over a century of human gardening that created a city of lakes and parks amidst neighborhoods and skyscrapers. I loved the breweries, the neighborhood pubs nestled between homes, the intimidating importance of people striding in the skyways, the spectacular events that brought everyone together like the Basilica block party, the way strangers would become neighbors when three feet of snow forced us all to work together to dig out city buses.
I told anyone who would listen that Minneapolis was my favorite city. That there was nowhere else I’d rather live. Especially compared to Milwaukee, it was difficult to make friends here – the old adage “if you want friends in Minnesota, go to kindergarten” was spot on. But I found some spectacular people who loved Jesus and wanted to see the city face its ignored injustices and thrive together. I wanted to spend the rest of my life here.
After dedicating my entire adult life to the city working in its worst neighborhoods to right its worst wrongs, 2020 came along and the air changed. When a governor illegally mandates you stay in your home, unable to even visit your parents next door while states like Florida are totally open, something about your trust in government breaks. When you realize your neighbors are going quietly along with this fundamental break from democracy, you look at them differently. They can’t be trusted either.
Somehow, the air tastes different. It smells different. It doesn’t refresh or enliven – it loses its life-giving potency.
When citizen journalists publish story after story of someone murdered by a violent criminal who prosecutors and judges had dead to rights but refused to imprison, the air changes.
When you realize that half of abortions in Minnesota are paid for by tax dollars and the state enables elective abortion until birth, the air changes.
When the legislature, with one vote majority, declares Christian parents abusive and threatens to take custody of their kids, the air feels downright poisonous. When the Star Tribune and KARE fail to even mention this in the news, it sinks on your chest like a weight that the fix is in.
After all that, things don’t feel the same. You don’t feel like you can enjoy even nature, the trees and lakes. Surely the leaves hold no responsibility for the great evil that has become Minnesota, but they become symbols, reminders of something dark.
Every breath you draw into your lungs feels tainted somehow. If you’ve ever inhaled a gas that stopped you halfway and forced you to cough instead, you know what I mean. You feel suffocated, every day. You yearn for true air, true breath, true freedom.
You shine your light in the darkness every day, but over time, you realize your batteries are fading, and the light is dimming. There is only so much darkness a human soul can take.
This morning I woke up in our new home in Tennessee. Finally, I breathed deep, and was reminded of the example of my ancestors whose strength and determination brought them across the sea to become a political bloc whose American power ultimately put so much pressure on the UK that it had to relent and, after 700 years of tyranny, restore freedom in Ireland.
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“But if at last our colours should be torn from Ireland’s heart
Her sons with shame and sorrow from the dear old isle would part
I’ve heard a whisper of a land that lies beyond the sea
Where rich and poor stand equal in the light of freedom’s day
Oh Ireland, must we leave you, driven by a tyrant’s hand
And seek a mother’s blessing from a strange and distant land
Where the cruel cross of England shall never more be seen
And in that land we’ll live and die for the wearing of the green”
All reactions:
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Oh, believe me – I understand the motivation.
I can’t imagine life without the fight – but I can imagine life elsewhere.
July 25th, 2023 at 11:51 am
“I can’t imagine life without the fight”
Oh, bullshit.
Who wants their days filled with reminders that they’re irrelevant, and worse, hated? Who wants their media pouring poison down their throats every minute? Who wants their pockets picked to fund all manner of degenerate shit that directly harms you and your family? Who wants to mingle with mentally ill, sexual deviants? Who wants to live in a city where black savages run wild, without consequence? Who wants their kids raised in such a fetid environment?
No one. Not even a sociopath wants that.
But you want us to believe you’re staying to fight….pffft. Fight with who? The degenerates *own* you. They completely control the government, law enforcement and the courts. There is no fight for you.
You are a fly bouncing off the window.
And if you become too annoying, you’ll know it when the building inspector comes calling, and your car starts getting ticketed, and you get visited by the cops at home.
I fought those rotten cocksuckers for 20 years, as hard as anyone. But there comes a time when an intelligent man says “this battle is lost; time to retreat to friendly territory and prepare for the war”.
You live in a shithole state, Mitch. It’s never going to get better, only worse. You will never have a GOP majority or Governor again. Your taxes will rise every year; you will either get with the degenerate program, learn to STFU, or you will get crushed like a bug.
July 25th, 2023 at 11:54 am
my favorite thing to emerge from Edina lately is the Sparkle Creed
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/06/29/sparkle-creed-reading-at-edina-lutheran-church-sparks-huge-online-debate/
July 25th, 2023 at 11:54 am
look up Sparkle Creed
July 25th, 2023 at 12:24 pm
When you drive South on I85, you’ll know you’ve entered South Carolina when you see the biggest Confederate battle flag flying anywhere in the Weimerica.
The reprobates screamed; they yelled; they called us RACISTS!!!; they took us to court. We said “that’s Mr. Racist to you, scumbag, and whipped their asses in court.
There’s a sodomy celebration parade in Greenville in June. Nudity will get you arrested. Public display of sexual behavior will get you arrested. Bringing your kids to view it will get you shunned by your neighbors. It’s a sad little procession that lasts about 15 minutes, and then its done.
To my knowledge, nowhere else is even that display of debauchery tolerated, or attempted in SC.
Blacks in SC kill one another fairly regularly, but they don’t carjack, or attack Whites, or try mass lootings…because they will almost certainly be killed. You don’t need a permit to carry a firearm here, and all you need to do is show a reasonable fear of serious bodily harm, and you have a case of self defense, whether the thug is armed, or not.
Entering an occupied house is an almost guaranteed death sentence.
Every now and then, I read about some scumbag transplant from the North that gets shitcanned from their teaching job for showing kids pornographic books, They sue, and never win.
Our taxes go up a few mils every 3-4 years. The increase is carefully defended, and if results are not seen, there will be no increase for years afterwards.
We have no fucking pro sportsball here.
We say “yessir” and “Yes ma’am”, and fuck off lefty.
My newspaper doesn’t make my blood pressure rise. There are no smarmy bullshit comments from our elected reps, left or right, on social media. We don’t elect 75IQ refugees from 3rd world shit holes to office.
This, Mr. Berg, is where the fight is.
July 25th, 2023 at 12:25 pm
That’s fine, Pig…for Minnesota, that’s fine.
July 25th, 2023 at 1:48 pm
All I can say is that there are reasons I don’t consider opportunities in Illinois and California, and with the original post, yes, Minnesota may join that list soon. Quite a shame, really.
July 25th, 2023 at 2:25 pm
“Minnesota may join that list soon.”
Oh fuck that, Mr. Bubble…just VOAT HARDER!
You can hardly notice any rot on the cheese up there. You can do it!
BTW…the Uke offensive has been officially deemed a tremendous flop. The RF has decimated all that new NATO hardware, and the Uke’s haven’t moved the front >1.2 KM.
Also UNESCO says Ukraine is now the most landmine contaminated country in the world. 90% are Uke mines…might as well add some cluster munitions.
#Winning.
July 25th, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Warning: blatant threadjack – nothing to see here, move along sheeople…
Zelensky Associate Was Present at Biden Bribery Meetings – Then Went to Work for President Zelensky Who Now Is Holding Blackmail Information Against Joe Biden
July 25th, 2023 at 3:08 pm
jpa: Now we understand why Pedo Joe’s handlers are so hot to introduce nukes into the mob war.
Memaw Clinton: “Take that motherfucker out, quietly”
Pedo Joe’s handlers: “Hold my ‘Tide Pod”
July 25th, 2023 at 3:15 pm
Unrelated, but funny as hell:
“Lebron James’ son Bronny suffers a cardiac arrest during USC practice
Bronny James, 18, was rushed by ambulance from USC’s Galen Center Monday
The 18-year-old is now in a stable in condition and no longer in intensive care”
Clot shot Biden takes a big hit with the blacks.
July 25th, 2023 at 4:31 pm
More blatant threadjacking – btw, big, this happened on 0bumbler property, and they were in da house!
Tafari Campbell’s drowning parallels tragic death of Clinton chef
monkey see, monkey do… moving along, sheeople… the elite royalty will piss on you later.
July 25th, 2023 at 4:49 pm
jpa, Obama’s Personal Chef Drowns in a Pond on Obama’s Luxurious Estate; Based on Footprints to and From the Pond, Police Are Looking Into Two Suspects, Or One Suspect With Four Feet
July 25th, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Regarding the notion of things being hopeless, let’s not forget that prior to Reagan, the South was solidly a bulwark of the Democratic Party, and California was solidly Republican. These things change as populations are persuaded that what they’ve been doing isn’t working out so well, and it can happen in Minnesota, too. Even Massachusetts and New York have had halfway adult governors occasionally.
July 25th, 2023 at 9:37 pm
Our resident troll instructs us: “MAGA is not policy.”
No, but neither was “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.” Neither was “I Like Ike,” or “Return to Normalcy,” or “Happy Days are Here Again,” or my all-time favorite comprehensive policy position adopted by a Presidential candidate: “Yes We Can.”
It’s almost as if certain people are too stupid to understand the difference between a Policy Position and a Campaign Slogan.
July 26th, 2023 at 6:29 am
jpa.
Yup. Someone was doing some cleanup work.
Obama’s chef learned to swim a couple of years ago and was allegedly wearing a life vest. How did he drown? He knew something that the deep state didn’t want to get out.
And the Clinton’s list of bodies is getting longer every day.
July 26th, 2023 at 11:13 am
If reportage is correct, this is the 2nd White House chef dying under suspicious circumstances in less than 10 years? I suppose they overhear and know a lot of details.