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1. The article about Minneapolis struck me.

   The big cities have always been dangerous in certain places at certain times. My Great-Great Grandfather was murdered in Chicago I believe it would have been in the 1800’s. Unfortunately you expect some of that.

   But I live in a largely rural area and even in my area I see evidence of what I feel the writer is speaking of. One place is on the road where I feel people drive more aggressively than ever before. Just one example of what I am talking about but not the only thing.

   It is not universal IMO. I see some people who I believe are taking great pains to be civil. But others are losing all civility. Almost like a split personality of society as a whole.

2. At least the Czech’s understand what is going on while the rest of the Euro Sheep march in lock step to the ovens of their own making.

3. In reference to “Decay of society”, I think the key phrase is “a sense of entitlement”. I see more and more people that are acting jerklike and then get upset, as if their rights are being trampled, when you call them on it.

4. Illinois is a fake state in a fake country. The Redoubt (upwind of nuke targets) is the best place for families while God sorts things out.

5. Rudi Giuliani can tell you how to clean up Minneapolis. He did it with NYC, a much larger and harder town. But basically it means not tolerating the little things, urinating in the alleys, littering, etc. Might take a year of flooding downtown with foot patrols, but its probably worth it if you want to save your city.

   1. I’m not sure Rudi Giuliani’s “Broken Window” theory is effective. I know he touted it quite heavily but Business Insider ran an article criticizing it. Additionally, I’ve seen it implemented in smaller communities across the nation and it doesn’t fare so well. What it does do is create a very negative view of the police force. It’s hard for a homeowner to feel good about a government that is writing him a ticket and fining him for grass that is too tall while the crack house down the road operates with impunity.

      1. I don’t know if it could truly be credited with statistical crime drops but it FELT different driving around NYC when the windshield washers and panhandlers were afraid to ply their trade. If done properly, Broken Windows only pits the criminals against the police, not the good citizens. Tickets for grass that is too long, is not BW, it is a misuse of police resources.

      2. Hugh, the concept works when it’s implemented properly, as Guilliani did. De Blaise has managed to completely undo all of that progress by pandering to the thugocracy and special interest groups. As a former commander once told me, every time you fail to enforce a standard…and by extension, a law…you set a new standard. A lower one.

6. Minneapolis is going through what I saw happen to the Quarters in New Orleans and Beale in Memphis! You can blame social decay and you would be right, but the real issue is who visits these places in the first place! Unless you want to get drunk, looking for drugs, looking for a party, or needing a pickup, what does any of these places have to offer?

   It can be cleaned up with more police and zero tolerance, but that would be bad for business! Don’t think for a second that the bleeding heart politicians don’t know this!

7. I helped my son move from Tennessee to Colorado in January. Due to a combination of warm wet conditions in the week prior to the start of our drive & a rapidly moving cold front by the time we got to the Kentucky-Illinois line the fog was so thick I could near6cut it with a knife. Driving in heavy fog on a pitch black interstate highway where the green informational signs had no lights & interchanges that were also unlit was a new level of white knuckle driving. When I complained on social media a relative in suburban Chicago explained that the state’s budget didn’t extend to luxuries like electricity. I’ll never drive through Illinois at night again.

8. Regarding families budgeting and mention of the SNAP card, check out the QUEST card. It is also known as the EBT cash card.

9. I live just outside Minneapolis (a.k.a. Murderapolis), and generally avoid entering city limits whenever feasible. Apart from 2 businesses, including a medical facility, there’s nothing there I can’t get better and/or cheaper elsewhere. And BTW, the city council just voted to increase the minimum wage to $15.

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