On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, John Mannillo wrote:
Also in today's Pioneer Press editorial, we are told how successful we have been for dreaming big in St. Paul and claiming "the city has gone through a genuine renaissance". Talk about spin. This sounds like an effort to save face after continually taking unrealistic and wrong positions over the recent past.
I think the only possible term to describe their position is "Orwellian". The connection to reality is completely lost, and yet these shrill cries of "Rennaissance!" only get louder. There is, as you point out, no evidence that a swing for the fences is any substitution for the hard work of building a city -- yet they keep claiming it year after year to be so.
It is, in the end, more about power than anything else. It has to be, since the accomplishments on the ground are so few, and the list so heavily padded with everyone else's work. If it isn't about any kind of reality, and is clearly about an attempt to bend reality, what is it?
Power. That's all that is left. "Let us run the show, and great things will happen! Like before!".
But it's all a lie, from begining to end. There's no reason to believe any of this nonsense. And we shouldn't.
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