“The Ruling Class wants Civil War!” - Voice from Minneapolis
Caleb Maupin conducted this interview with Penny Arcos, longtime Minneapolis resident and CPI Regional Captain while in the city to cover the unrest.
Caleb Maupin: What’s it like to be a Minneapolis resident amid all this?
Penny Arcos: When it first started getting crazy, a lot of us were wondering if it was going to be another George Floyd riot. It was very scary during that time, and it’s kind of getting scary again now. It seems like the red team versus blue team rhetoric is really amping up, and it feels like the ruling class is trying to provoke a civil war.
The economic crisis is going to get really bad, especially with AI and automation, and it seems like all of this is a distraction. Meanwhile, we have the USS Abraham Lincoln up near Iran. We’re trying to take out Iran, trying to take out China, trying to take out everybody—rather than fixing our economy.
Even though I’m not a full Trump supporter or a full Marjorie Taylor Greene supporter, I do agree with what Marjorie Taylor Greene has been saying: that they’re trying to incite a civil war. We need to focus on uniting against Wall Street and on anti-imperialism.
Caleb Maupin: Some people look at the death of Alex Pretti, police brutality in the United States, and the threats to our civil liberties, and they see this as an overall crackdown on free speech and the right to protest. What do you think?
Penny Arcos: Yeah, it definitely seems that way. We saw this during the Biden administration with the protests at Columbia University, which were led primarily by Jewish students. They were treated very brutally, and there has been a broader crackdown on dissent against the state of Israel.
It’s very scary that our civil liberties are being attacked. We should have the right to peacefully protest, and we should also have the right to bear arms—that’s the Second Amendment. I really do see the state ramping up its attacks on civil liberties.
Caleb Maupin: Any other thoughts about Minneapolis and the political atmosphere here?
Penny Arcos: Looking at the protesters here, they’re not really saying anything significant. They’re just shouting strange insults at people driving by who can’t even hear them. I don’t see them organizing to unite anyone. They say strange things, then they go home.
This so-called general strike wasn’t really a strike. The people who were supposedly marching in their little strike parade went to the Mall of America afterward to shop. I don’t call that a strike.
Caleb Maupin: Good. Very good point.
When Penny Arcos organized a CPI workshop in Minneapolis last year (February 22nd, 2025) antifa protesters mobilized an idiotic counter protest outside the rented house. WATCH!