When the DFL wins yet another one-party election in one of their one-party towns, Minneapolis or Saint Paul, they are – or, not too long ago – were wont to chant “We own this town”. They may not be quite so loud about that anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yes, Minnesota DFL – you own Minneapolis this morning. Every one of you, from Duluth to Worthington , from La Crescent to Moorhead. Minneapolis is all of your town. Your responsibility. Every death – by cop, by gangster, by overdose in the increasingly hopeless communities, by accidents on the streets whose “calming measures” have ramped up the road rage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minneapolis is your city. Every scorched brick and broken window and looted business on East Lake and in Uptown belongs to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s not a single person with a soul worth worrying about that didn’t blanche at the video of George Floyd dying literally under the knee of a Minneapolis cop. The fact that the union didn’t demand the usual cooling off period after officer-involved killings indicates that they felt the same way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this is nothing new in Minneapolis. The cops had a reputation for brutality when I moved to Minneapolis – just down the road from the infamous Third Precinct – in 1985, when the last Republican mayor was twenty years in the rear-view mirror and the last Republican city councilman was still in living memory. The reputation carried on during the “Murderapolis” years, when Dave Sauro was a household name – kids, ask your parents about both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so it is today, after two generations of single party rule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two generations after Plymouth Avenue burned, taking whatever economic viability North Minneapolis had with it, the North Side is still a warehouse for the poor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the DFL owns Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crime has been on the rise – against the trend and tide in the rest of the state (which has the lowest crime in the nation for a state with a major metro area) and the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the DFL owns Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The schools have the worst achievement gap in the nation. Because the DFL owns Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The city has been stocking up on desperate underclasses, imported to Minneapolis explictly or implicitly, drawn by tax-funded goodies, kept here to serve as votes on the hoof by a one-party city that cares about remaining a one-party city more than anything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the DFL owns Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And East Lake is burning – still, at 6 AM – and the National Guard and the Saint Paul cops are on the way to try to put the greased squirrel back in the shopping bag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the DFL owns Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every fire. Every murder. Every homeless person wandering their life away, up and down, whether on Lake Street or Eat Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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