Category: Socialism American Style
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The Honor System For The Dishonorable
It’s almost as if putting a bunch of Sandy Feists and Andy Smiths into a room with unlimited authority was a terrible idea.
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Generational Failure
Socialists are usually children of wealth who feel cheated out of their on success. So – what if we have an entire generation like that?
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Place Your Bets
Re: Mayor Mamdani – it’s time for a good old fashioned countdown to the inevitable.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Berg’s 21st Law is about to get its sternest test. More in a moment. Who knew there was something too extreme for Richard Carlbom? The longtime DFL strategist, the guy behind getting gay marriage ensconced in the Minnesota Constitution, replaced Ken Martin as chair of the MNDFL after Ken Martin moved on to a star-studded…
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Will Of The Voter
George Will has deserved plenty of flak over the past 40 years or so. And he’s caught some for this interview here. And I think the flakkers got it wrong: I think what he’s saying here is “let New York voters FA, so the whole nation can FO”. I mean, it’s going to happen anyway.
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Priorities
Lets you wondered what Omar Fateh’s actual priorities might be: Not fixing potholes. Not making a city in economic freefall into a destination again. Protecting illegals from the boogeyman. Minneapolis is in the best of hands.
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Berg’s 21`st Law Is Universal
Omar Fateh won the the DFL – let’s be honest, DSA – endorsement for Mayor of Minneapolis: Well – probably won: Anyway, close enough for city work. Anyway, the whole thing is further proof of Berg’s 21st Law. And at least he knows what the real problems are: This fall will become known as the…
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The DFL At Work
The wages of DFL control are languishing as a backwater. Count the zeros: that’s 90 billion in Pennsylvania…: And 33 million in Minnesota: Other than the number of zeros, the big difference is that the big, Pennsylvania number comes from private investors. Ripe marks…er, taxpayers covered it in Minnesota. So yeah – while I’m…
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Establishment Protection
I’ll direct your attention to the Alondra Cano corollary to Berg’s 21st Law. To wit: Cano’s Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law: In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”. Submitted in the affirmative: The primary effect of Ranked Choice Voting is to protect “the establishment”,…
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There Must Be A Surge Of Socialists Running For Office
Their supporters – real and automated – are rutting: We can test whether that’s true or not. Experiment: Put a group of cute girls in tank tops with order pads in the middle of an open field. If a “Hooters” magically springs up, you got yourself a theory.
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Violating The Laws Of Physics
It’s getting difficult to find numbers small enough to measure how low “Rolilng Stone” has gone. Their ad for The Container Store, thinly disguised as a tongue bath for Amy Klobuchar? Their slander of Nick Sandman (oh, yeah – I’m still watching that one). The University of Virginia rape hoax. It’s easier to quantify the…
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The Future Of The DFL. If The MNGOP Is Very Lucky
Hope Walz – a 25 year old reportedly working as some kind of social worker – on the Mamdani election: “The top 1% that exploit all of us down below?” She’s been the child of a Congressional representative or governor since she was five years old, and has had every form of access, power and…
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Groceries
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office recently hosted an all-day continuing legal education program titled, “Price, Access, and Power: Exploring Grocery Costs, Food Access, and Competition.” Several speakers advocated for breaking up grocery retailers and establishing government grocery stores in areas that don’t have them, such as high crime…
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Battlespace Preparation IV
Joe Doakes formerly of Como Park emails: One of the upshots of Americans (induced) economic illiteracy is that if they’ve gotten any education in economics at all, it’s been in Keynesianism. As such, they think the natural, effective response to an economic downturn is to pour taxpayer money into the situation. Which merely stretches out…
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I Was Told There Would Be Pouncing
While this is good – and expected – news, I feel a little cheated. Companies are ditching DEI because it’s bad for the bottom line; they can practice equality without flogging “equity”. But notice how it’s framed: “under pressure from conservative activists”. I mean, if you’re going to “blame” companies’ rediscovering economic and social sanity…
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When A Plan Comes Together
So, the housing permit numbers for the Twin Cities are in. And if putting people in houses is your goal, they are…uh, not good: Saint Paul: And Minneapolis: Was it rent control? Bidenomics? Why choose?
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The Klink Administration In One Clip
I have a hard time describing the contempt this bit here makes me feel: She left the windows open (presumably at the Governor’s mansion, safely dug in down on “old money” Summit Avenue, miles from the actual rioting) and “smelled the tires burning”, because it was a “touchstone to what was happening”. I smelled it…
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Open Letter To America’s Dumbest Senator
To: Senator Tina SmithFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe; Democracy Senator, Yesterday you (via your social media intern) tweeted this: “History” may mark those words, if it’s written by someone dumb enough to be a Tina Smith voter. But – and saying for sake of argument that Donald Trump was in fact any way a threat…
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“Moderate”
Tim Walz loves him some Chinese Communism. Well, at the very least he loved it, back when he was teaching kids “social studies”: There appears to be precious little evidence that he changed anything but his surface decorations (during 12 years as a “moderate” while campaigning in the rural 1st CD).
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Among Tim Walz’s Many Tall Tales
When Governor Klink and the DFL legislative majority were making the case to squander the “surplus” [1], they put “cutting poverty by 30%” as one of their goals. So – how is poverty in Minnesota doing? Well – we don’t know. Official poverty stats conveniently trail real time by a couple of years. Official poverty…
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His True Color Is Red
Socialism: A system that has murdered 100 million people in the past century? Or just another term for “Minnesota Nice?” Governor Walz: Klink, of course, has been practicing the rookie-league Beria handbook for years: Snitch Lines “Badthink” databases The relentless sorting and name-calling Of course, Walz serves as governor solely at the sufference of the…
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Punching Laterally-To-Down
To: Jason Chavez, Minneapolis DSA/DFL councilbeingFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Punching Councilbeing Chavez, You tweeted this on Wednesday: Let’s talk about the term “uprising”. It usually connotes a group of subjugated, beaten-down people, “rising up” against their oppressors. Good examples of uprisings that fit some variant of that definition: Each of these uprisings have a…
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Feeling So 1938
History doesn’t repeat – but it rhymes. The world’s major powers are rattling their sabers as they spar in secondary theaters. The economies are in the hands of people who love to tinker with the levers and buttons of the Big State. And young intellectually over-stimulated but underendowed bobbleheads are romping and playing: Everything old…
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Where’s The Money?
The Minneapolis City Council’s vote on minimum wages for independent contractor drivers has driven Lyft out of Minneapolis, and Uber out of both cities. A friend of the blog emails with an initial reaction very close to my own: The Minneapolis City Council doesn’t actually understand a lot. They want affordable options, but they want…
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Compromise
Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…