{"id":77157,"date":"2021-03-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77157"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:06:27","slug":"death-spiral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77157","title":{"rendered":"Death Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Soucheray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/03\/06\/soucheray-minneapolis-will-have-to-go-to-the-top-for-intervention\/?fbclid=IwAR0ITx673_seYT_a-iKzPgZm-POeWi0N1czf0NmdhV11Phjtw3LBnkfb0-U\">on the Chauvin Trial<\/a> and Minneapolis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Yes, the trial, and the attendant protests, could be the end of Minneapolis. There is no political strength in place to save it. The council even exudes a vibe that suggests they are more concerned about the safety and convenience of protesters than their own citizenry.<\/p><p>The council cannot open an intersection because of their apparent fealty to those who occupy it. What are they going to do if rioters decide that they are going to take over six or seven square blocks of downtown, maybe the Nicollet Mall? This city let a police station burn. This is a city that called for help too late back in May 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Minneapolis city council president Lisa Bender famously said that expecting public safety is a &#8220;privilege&#8221; &#8211; to which every taxpayer in that city should be saying &#8220;Yes.  It Is.  A &#8216;privilege&#8217; I, whatever my race, creed or belief, pay through the nose for.  Now provide it, stat, or get out of office and quite wasting our time&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they don&#8217;t ,and they won&#8217;t, and when Lisa Bender leaves the Council she, like Frey and even Alondra Cano, will be replaced by someone worse.  That&#8217;s cynicism talking &#8211; well, not <em>just <\/em>cynicism.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76956\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"76956\">the way Minneapolis politics is set up<\/a>.  It&#8217;s the way politics go <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.32ndohghx\">wherever a small minority, committed to getting power at whatever cost<\/a>, get their way.  It&#8217;s the apotheosis of Urban Progressive Privilege. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not even a complete apocalypse is going to change that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Soucheray on the Chauvin Trial and Minneapolis: Yes, the trial, and the attendant protests, could be the end of Minneapolis. There is no political strength in place to save it. The council even exudes a vibe that suggests they are more concerned about the safety and convenience of protesters than their own citizenry. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,349],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-77157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-chauvin-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77158,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77157\/revisions\/77158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}