But the Civil Rights Act did eventually pass - the rage never quite boiled over because it got channeled into realizing something. Even if it was kinda the bare minimum and did nothing to address all the violent state repression that precipitated it, there was at least a clear legal victory that let people feel some relief.
Where is that relief for this? All I see is the pressure getting ratcheted up for a few years, the circle of people who don’t feel precarity constricts faster. And when the Dems eventually take office, they’ll put the funding back in place[1]. Pretend like ICE is different now. The usual song and dance. Pressure will get notched down, but nothing is done to fully abate it – let alone deal with the stress fractures.
Yes, this isn’t The Thing that kicks off a big decisive Event in the history books. But its also hard not to see it as a threshold of some sort. There is almost certainly not going to be a direct, legal challenge to federal power… but maybe we see a scattered, piecemeal decoupling. Some states start to develop a trajectory that, in time, becomes increasingly unrelated to that of the overall federal government. Not out of a conscious choice, but simply by necessity and circumstance.
though, what this does to Minnesota’s agriculture in the meantime… ↩︎
But the Civil Rights Act did eventually pass - the rage never quite boiled over because it got channeled into realizing something. Even if it was kinda the bare minimum and did nothing to address all the violent state repression that precipitated it, there was at least a clear legal victory that let people feel some relief.
Where is that relief for this? All I see is the pressure getting ratcheted up for a few years, the circle of people who don’t feel precarity constricts faster. And when the Dems eventually take office, they’ll put the funding back in place[1]. Pretend like ICE is different now. The usual song and dance. Pressure will get notched down, but nothing is done to fully abate it – let alone deal with the stress fractures.
Yes, this isn’t The Thing that kicks off a big decisive Event in the history books. But its also hard not to see it as a threshold of some sort. There is almost certainly not going to be a direct, legal challenge to federal power… but maybe we see a scattered, piecemeal decoupling. Some states start to develop a trajectory that, in time, becomes increasingly unrelated to that of the overall federal government. Not out of a conscious choice, but simply by necessity and circumstance.
though, what this does to Minnesota’s agriculture in the meantime… ↩︎