Will safe space save the day?

As I make plans for my move to Detroit, it's not too late to cancel if some progress is made towards meeting the guidelines I put forth for me to stay in this area. It's only in recent days that America is discovering a movement that may help satisfy some of these demands. I only learned about it because of right-wing websites bellyaching about it.

I'm talking about the safe space trend.

The aim of a safe space is to provide safety to people who might be persecuted or marginalized. In modern America, few groups have suffered more persecution than the political left. Thus, we on the left should create a safe space locally that protects us on the left.

As things stand now, safe spaces are found primarily on college campuses to protect students from spoiled, entitled troublemakers who attack them. Safe spaces aren't intended to turn people into hermits. The idea is largely a response to right-wing violence that has been perpetrated against students. The shrillest critics of safe spaces are the very people who'd make safe spaces unsafe!

But safe spaces shouldn't be limited just to campuses. There should be a safe space strictly for the left in this area. Fact is, most of the United States is a safe space of sorts for the violent right. It is more than safe for the right, in fact, for dissent is not tolerated, period. These right-wing safe spaces also impose views on an unwilling public. Being subjected to it is like being forced to stick your head in the toilet in a public restroom and leave it there indefinitely.

I propose acquiring either a building or a vacant lot to serve as a progressive safe space. No amenities are required. I also think it's fair that government should fund it - just as government subsidizes what are effectively right-wing safe spaces. I also believe government should set aside perhaps a city block or neighborhood for use as a safe space for the left - but a single lot would be preferable to nothing at all.

Government pays for everything the Far Right does. The Bush regime looted Social Security to fund an illegal war. Local government continues to finance pet projects like luxury housing and a new clubhouse at the golf course - despite officials' claims to be taxpayer watchdogs. So it's only fair that they fund our safe space too. The lunatic right complains that those of us on the left have everything handed to us, but that's a lie. I've never had anything handed to me - ever. But the right has. Entitlement is central to the right wing in modern America.

A safe space would likely pay for itself many times over. Yet it doesn't audit rigged elections. That too was a requirement for me to stay in the area. It gets done, or I leave.