{"id":6303,"date":"2025-10-11T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:03:06","slug":"opinion-we-should-be-cleareyed-about-whats-happening-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=6303","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | \u2018We Should Be Cleareyed About What\u2019s Happening Here\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">We have U.S. troops from red states deployed on the streets of blue states over the objection of people\u2019s elected representatives. Those troops are ostensibly there to defend the government\u2019s paramilitary force that now lands Black Hawk helicopters on Chicago apartment buildings in the middle of the night and drags people out who are citizens and legal residents and children, half-naked, screaming and crying, who have committed no crimes. They just \u2014 there was a priest who was praying outside an ICE facility, and it was on video, and they just shot him in the head with a pepper ball. He was doing nothing. He was a priest. He was praying. Like, we might not want American politics to be about this, but American politics is about this. The Trump administration has decided to make American politics about this, and they have used the federal government to make sure that American politics is about this. Am I surprised that the median voter, that the average American isn\u2019t as concerned about this as they are about their own premiums? No, of course not. Because if it\u2019s not happening in your city, and if it\u2019s not happening in your apartment building, and you\u2019re not paying as close attention to the news as political junkies like us, you are of course going to care more about your premiums. But that doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s not important. And that doesn\u2019t mean that if we let this slide and we just ignore it, that Trump is going to stop at deployments in Portland and Chicago. Remember, people thought maybe he would stop at deployments in Los Angeles and D.C. and then he realized, I guess, that he didn\u2019t get the reaction he wanted. And now Chicago seems like the one city where he is getting more of the reaction that he wanted, because ICE\u2019s tactics have been so militarized and so aggressive. And so the question is, we get to 2026 and the midterms and are there troops stationed by the polls? Are there paramilitary ICE agents running around the streets around the election? And do we have faith that if the results are close and that if there was some kind of problem at the polls and there was intimidation or like that, everything is going to be OK? I don\u2019t know. I hate being like the doomer person, and I don\u2019t like getting people alarmed unnecessarily. And I don\u2019t think we should be alarmed, but I think we should be cleareyed about what\u2019s happening here. And what it\u2019s going to take to stop it. It is possible. People being dissatisfied with the way that Trump is running the economy, the tariffs, cost of living, everything else is enough to just win us the midterms comfortably. But that is a bet that we\u2019re taking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have U.S. troops from red states deployed on the streets of blue states over the objection of people\u2019s elected representatives. 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