Radio-Canada journalist Azeb Wolde-Giorghis reports from Minneapolis, where tensions are high — but sombre at the site of a vigil for the 37-year-old woman who was killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Joe, a resident who lives walking distance from the scene of the shooting, told CBC he came by because he "just felt the need to come out and pay homage to this mother."
"It's very tough for our community; we've had this happen before and I love this community," he said, referencing the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of police — an incident that took place less than 2 kilometres from this scene.
He continued: "I'm sad, and I've got a little bit of rage in me that I need to pacify, because I'm just pissed right now. And I think a lot of people who care about our community are pissed. We don't want an invading force — that's so un-American. Like, all of this is so un-American to us."
Joe then gestured to the two people standing next to him who had also come to pay respects to Good, saying they were from China and Switzerland.
"To try and explain this to them, it's just mind-boggling."
The key concept here is fear. The specifics don't really matter right now. What does matter is understanding that their fear led to desperation and that made Trump look like a viable option.
If Republicans were not afraid of god damn everything they would not have been desperate enough to vote for Trump. Multiple times in multiple elections.
Why they are afraid isn't the problem. People not understanding that fear is the root cause is the problem. Republicans are followers, not leaders. Since Democrats and not-Republicans don't have any good leaders that leaves Republicans with a very easy decision. Vote Republican because that is what they are told to do. Don't vote for Democrats because they are The Enemy, which is also what they are told.
Last November when it was crunch time 77 million Republicans out voted a whole bunch of apathetic not-Republicnas. Fear won over apathy.
People spend too much time trying to understand the Republican mind. Don't. They won't believe you anyway.
They are afraid. The reason they voted Trump in the first time was because Republican voters are afraid of the out group having nice things.
It's not hate. It's fear. Republicans are afraid of society passing them by. They choose hate because they cannot handle being afraid.
That's it. Trump promised Republican voters he would hurt the right people and that's all the warm safety blanket they needed.
This is why you can't talk to most Republicans. Reality scares them and they know reason will rip off their safety blanket.
No one is saying to install solar on bio fuel land. The headline is just illustrating one point. That bio fuels are a scam.
Instead of insulting people read up on China and Australia. What they've been up to with solar and batteries and EVs.
Maybe look up grid forming hybrid inverters.