If You Are Not From The Twin Cities…
By Mitch Berg
…or haven’t hung around here a long time, he’s hard to explain the Twin Cities left.
I got this quote from an introduction thread of a local politics list-server; a regular is explaining his politics to the membership:
My politics are moderate. That is, I view the current IR as an
extreme-right party and the DFL as a moderate-right party with some
progressive elements. I’d call the Greens and Socialist Workers Party
moderate-left parties.
These are the people who think the media, the Strib, the school system and academia are moderate to conservative.
To paraphrase PJ O’Rourke; “You can have a discussion with these people. You can also have a discussion with livestock, for all the good it’ll do you”.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Seriously, what in this guy’s view would be “hard left”? Do we even want to imagine?
August 8th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Sounds like flash
August 8th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I moved to the Twin Cities in 1980. The first time my parents came up from Missouri to visit we were watching the news and some politician was being interviewed.
“Who is that pinko?” asked my father.
“Umm, Dad, that guy’s a Republican.”
August 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Well…. This is a European perspective. see political compass
http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008
August 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Every time I hear an leftist complaining about the corporately-owned, right-wing MSM, I can’t help but think “birds of a feather…”
When everyone you surround yourself with is a Castro-sympathizing, Chomsky-revering socialist, of course Don Shelby and Nick Coleman look like moderates.
Pauline Kael hit the nail on the head and is the text book example of it: “How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him!”
August 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
That’s priceless Night Writer!
August 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
There are good, solid conservatives in Minnesota, just not many in the Twin Cities.
I attended GOP precinct caucuses in Rockville in 1980. State Senator Joe Niehaus’ stump speech promised that, if re-elected, he’d go to St. Paul and vote NO. NO to higher taxes, NO to special privileges for any group, NO to timewasting debate on state muffins. If it’s a good idea, we’ll vote NO now and think about it for a few years and if it still seems like a good idea, then maybe we’ll consider it; but for now, the answer is NO. Unanimously endorsed. I cheered myself hoarse.
I attended the GOP precinct caucus in the Selby-Dale area in 1984. From the conversation around me, I concluded I was the only conservative in the room. These people thought they were Republicans but they brought resolutions for platform planks that no self-respecting Socialist would have dared. Right-wing? Heck no, you can’t even see it from there.
God, I miss Joe Niehaus.