Peace on Earth”¦ 2040

Raise Your Voice

By PETER MOLENAAR

Commendable activists from this community recently invested hours of engagement with our city”'s planning process. The “2040 Plan” attempts to envision beyond the immediate future, and certainly reflects more than just the question of neighborhood housing density. Importantly, as well, 2040 intends to ameliorate climate change with infrastructure adjustments. Frankly, in this endeavor, “we the people” of Minneapolis are light-years ahead of our nation”'s ruling party.

Case in point, Star Tribune, Nov. 15:

“The United States has lost its military edge to a dangerous degree and could potentially lose a war against China or Russia [!!!]”¦ The panel argued that despite a $716 billion defense budget this year, which is four times that of China and more than 10 times that of Russia”¦ it is recommended that Congress lift budget caps on defense spending [!!!].”

Feel free to draw your own conclusions. To which I will add: Even as this mind-numbing propaganda renders true democracy impossible, and even as rising oceans will soon enough inundate our coastal cities, and even as the Republican Party”'s trillion dollar tax scam giveaway to the billionaire class will ultimately trash our Social Security, and even as Trump”'s energy department defers to the vacillations of private capital in opposition to a program of federal investments which might actually extend our existence into the post fossil fuel world to come”¦ we should do what???… Read the rest “Peace on Earth”¦ 2040”