As a conservative, I am alarmed at the speed St. Paul and the state are moving in the direction of Progressivism. I searched the Google for a definition and found: A social or political movement that aims to represent the interests of ordinary people …
I believe that definition is much too gracious.
This movement has ruined many great cities in our nation, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, in the period of a decade. Crime is rampant, homelessness an epidemic, and drug use assisted by progressive policies. This is the template we seem to be pursuing.
St. Paul is fortunate in some way that we have a climate that forces us to accept the grim reality. Homeless encampments in St. Paul are not just dangerous, they are deadly. In addition, our cold and snowy months require us to focus on the simple art of staying warm. The city tries its best to ignore massive snowfalls, but the “ordinary” people do not accept this dereliction, so the plowing seems to be done begrudgingly.
St. Paul took another step in the direction of progressivism this past week, when it inaugurated a panel of 11 dedicated to reparations, primarily in the areas of housing, construction and neighborhood development. The committee will be tasked with the obvious, to determine who should get reparations and how much. I continue to wonder why those of us who moved into St. Paul the past 40 years should be responsible for the sins of our fathers … but that is water under the bridge.
Progressivism will eventually falter in the same manner that socialism will, at some point you run out of other people’s money. When that happens, however, you will be left with a city no one recognizes … much like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco.
Jerry Wynn, St. Paul…. (Article sent by Mark Waldelaand!)
Make no mistake: mishandling classified documents is a crime, even when unintentional under the standard of “gross negligence.” That makes Biden’s lakeside Wilmington, DE mansion (that once belonged to a DuPont family branch) a crime scene. And the latest news that an unspecified number of classified documents (not necessarily only 6 despite widespread reports) were discovered Friday mans that it was an active crime scene last weekend when Joe and “Dr. Jill” were allowed unsupervised access to their home there.
I am not a law enforcement expert, but elementary logic suggests that allowing a potential suspect access to a crime scene before an investigation is complete risks all kind of mischief, including destruction of evidence.
At best, this constitutes gross negligence on the part of the Depart of Justice investigators. And that is being very charitable, particularly given the treatment afforded President Trump at his Mar A Lago residence, where his lawyers, unlike Biden’s, were not allowed to view or participate in the search conducted under humiliating and public circumstances.
During his visit to U.S.-Mexican border in January 2023, President Biden brought up an ugly chapter in the history of Democrat rule in America.
In response to a reporter’s question about the admission of illegal border crossers, Biden replied: “I thought it was a human right for, you know, Jews in Germany to be able to go — to get to escape and get help where they could.”
Biden’s allusion to history, implying America had been a haven for these Jews fleeing Hitler, was a flagrant falsehood. Should the United States offer Latin Americans the same welcome it provided to the Jews escaping Hitler’s Final Solution, no single person would cross US Mexican border.
Indeed, the United States was not a place where Jews could “to get to escape and get help.” The most telling is the tragedy of the German ocean liner MS St. Louis, whose captain, Gustav Schroder, tried to save 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba by bringing his ship to Miami only to learn that President Roosevelt and the Democratically controlled Congress refused his Jewish passengers a safe harbor. The desperate passengers of St. Louis sent President Roosevelt a telegram begging him for refuge – he never bothered to reply. By taking no action, Roosevelt sent them back to slaughter.
Although some European countries accepted the MS St. Louis’s Jews, it only delayed the inevitable. As German armies rolled over Europe, most of them became victims of the Holocaust. Moreover, at the dawn of World War II, a bill was introduced in Congress to increase the emigration quota for Jewish refugee children. It died in committee in the summer of 1939, and millions of Jewish children were deprived of the chance to be part of the American future, or more precisely, they were deprived of any future.
Incidentally, Anne Frank and her family were denied asylum in America and perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The Democrats’ refusal to rescue Jews from extermination offered Hitler a propaganda coup; he used it to justify the persecution of Jews. The Nazis could say that they were not alone in their hatred of Jews; the rest of the world, and especially the United States, did not want them, either.
Was it a case of willful blindness? Regardless, this indelible stain of contributing to the Holocaust should remain in American consciousness forever.
That was then, but things are not much better now for the Russians and Ukrainians who have refused to participate in the Russian–Ukrainian war or the refugees fleeing from the Ukrainian war zone trying to save their lives and their children’s lives by seeking refuge in the United States. Mostly, they are English-speaking, well-educated, law-abiding citizens, but they are not welcome.
Instead, in a striking dissonance between Jews in 1939 and Russians and Ukrainians today, masses of immigrants from Latin America are met with open arms – no visas required, just crossing the American border. It would require a fierce Democratic supporter to deny that Donald Trump was right when he stated, “When Mexico sends its people…they’re sending people with lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” We can add that they’re also bringing disease and human trafficking.
But, reprehensible as it might be, the open borders and the subsequent upsurge of refugees serve the Democrat party’s political objectives.
The Democrats’ scheme is to change the country’s demographics with an emphasis on open borders, thus ensuring a continuous inflow of Latinos to the U.S. The central premise of this strategy is to entice the immigrants to vote Democrat with welfare benefits, free health care, free education of children, and eventual citizenship. Yet, despite dreadful consequences, the Democrats exhibit a greater hatred for Americanism than for terrorism, drugs, and crimes, which makes them inherently incapable or rather unwilling to safeguard this country.
Those herds of immigrants with morals and values opposed to those of Americans promoted resentment instead of assimilation, polarization instead of unification, and ultimately making the United States of America not united, not states, and not even American.
Alexander G. Markovsky is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, a conservative think tank that examines national security, energy, risk analysis, and other public policy issues. He is the author of “Anatomy of a Bolshevik” and “Liberal Bolshevism: America Did Not Defeat Communism, She Adopted It.” Mr. Markovsky is the owner and CEO of Litwin Management Services, LLC.
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