Jenna Stocker: Minnesota's Twin Cities In Freefall

Tragic.

But useful.

What we have here is one of the sub-laboratories of democracy implementing progressivism. What are the consequences of instantiating the relevant bits of the progressive worldview? What if the insurgents in our cultural civil war were to win? After over a year of implementing the theories of BLM and that aspect of the progressive left, we have an answer. If you want to know, look at the before-and-after versions of Ferguson, Portland, San Francisco...and Minnesota's twin cities...

Any reasonable person who seriously considers the proposals of the progressive left can predict--with great confidence--where they will lead. Experimentation is not actually necessary in some cases. I know what will happen if I drop and anvil on my foot. There's really no reason to do the experiment. Same with defunding the police and all the rest from the progressive left.

But. 

If you aren't convinced, and you need to know the outcome of actual experiments...you're in luck. 

Because places like the twin cities have run the experiments.

Progressivism leads to disaster. It drastically erodes public safety. It makes the afflicted cities less, not more just. It has undeniable bad consequences and no obvious good ones. And, in case such things matter to you: it's black neighborhoods that have born the brunt of this.

Of course extremists generally and the extremist left in particular never admit(s) error. So, when faced with refutation, they usually do one of three things: (a) reassert the theory at a higher level (szienze is razizt!!!); (2) invoke an ad hoc hypothesis to explain away the evidence (the violence was caused by the pandemic! Magically!); or (3) invoke skepticism: we can't be entirely certain that progressive/BLM policies caused the massive surge in violence. Of course the latter requires inconsistent invocation of skepticism. If they were to invoke it consistently it would undermine their own core positions--we can't be absolutely certain that blacks are killed disproportionately by cops; we can't be certain that it's because of racism; we can't even be certain than any blacks at all are ever killed by cops... You can't use skepticism to defend a positive position.

Well anyway.