The Cano Corollary To Berg’s 21st Law
By Mitch Berg
The Cano Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law is a new addition to the canon – and like all the Berg’s Laws, it is an observation that started as satire.
To wit:
In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”.
It’s named for the former Minneapolis 9th Ward council woman, dotty dimbulb and “third world feminist” (a term almost as grimly hilarious as “queer for Palestine”) who, in retrospect,not only seems moderate, but likely would have a hard time getting nominated for office in MInneapolis, due to being “too centrist”.
It was in full effect in Minnneapolis and Saint Paul last night, Democratic Socialist-endorsed DFLers Aisha Chughtai and Aurin Chowdhury swept to wins. Depending on the machjinations of Ranked Choice Voting, it appears Soren Stevenson – another DFLer with DSA endorsement – might eke out a win over council president Andrea Jenkins – the leftist transgender black woman who, not so long ago, seemed like the left edge of the Overton Window, and may as well be Jesse Helms today.
I’ll point out that not only did I predict this after 2021, but so did Big Left; after the “Defund” question went town to humiliating defeat, Big Left swore they weren’t going to let that happen again. The DSA – which is now well within the left edge of the Overton WIndow – started pumping money and resources and lots and lots of noise into the race the week after the 2021 election.
Expect everything in Minneapolis to get worse, coarser, less civil, uglier and more stupid – until 2-4 years out, when a group comes along, refers to the DSA as “centrist” and the mainstsream DFL as “Republicans”. I wouldn’t rule out an overt Communist party, to the extent there’s actually a meaningful distinction anymore.
Saint Paul? Well, call it a split: DSA-endorsed Hwa Jeong Kim appears to have won in Ward 5; the DSA’s Pa Der Vant appears to have lost – but narrowly – in Ward 7.
The 1% sales tax hike to pay for the things the city was already supposed to be paying for with its ridiculous taxes, and perhaps to try to compensate for the gutting of the city’s retail sector? It passed overwhelmingly. There was never any action on that bet. The most regressive tax there is just got increased on a city full of people who are less able to pay it every day (thanks, “Bidenomics”).
School board? Garbage in, garbage out.
The closest thing I have to good news in the Cities proper? In my ward, Ward 4, people expressed their dissatisfaction with the “choices” – the unknown Bob Bushard and incumbent Mitra “Chasing Intersectional Perfection” Jalali by submitting about as many write-in votes than the rest of the city put together.
Other news that might, depending on what happens, be good? Duluth turned out Emily “Turbo-Karen” Larson for explicitly more moderate DFLer Roger Reinert. Will he be able to moderate the Duluth City Council – about whose results I know nothing. While you can’t judge a book by its cover, the winners last night all have names that scream “Progressive Karen” to me. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. .
Action on that bet? Step right up.
November 8th, 2023 at 11:41 am
This reminds me of conversations I have with friends still living in California…Goes something like this
ME: “JFC, friend…I just read about that new insanity your state put into law. How TF can you stay there, man?”
FRIEND: “Yeah, the people in control are insane, but my county is deep red and conservative as hell.”
ME: “What difference does that make? The laws coming out of Sacramento (or St. Paul, Patriots) are the law from border to border. Your kids are still being taught how to do buttsex, and encouraged to mutilate their genitals. Your taxes are fucking ridiculous, and your money is being used to fund shit that is harmful to you and your family. You aren’t safe from savage blacks in any city. You are considered an enemy by the people in charge, and if your local Sheriff says he won’t kick your door down to look for evil 30 round AR magazines, the state will sure as hell send troopers in who will. You’re fucked.”
Minnesota is a degenerate shithole Patriots™; that’s never going to change, only get worse.
November 8th, 2023 at 12:50 pm
Bob Bushard’s problem might not have been that he was an “unknown.” He’s one of those perennial candidates and might be too well known in that regard. Nonetheless, Ward 4 can never seem to find a candidate that can campaign well enough to beat whomever the DFL endorses. There have been strong enough candidates at times, but it’s tough when the whole DFL machine is campaigning against an individual you.
November 8th, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Minnesota is a degenerate shithole Patriots™; that’s never going to change, only get worse.
30 years ago, the congressional delegation wsa 6-2 DFL. Today., it’s 4-4.
Seems we’re at a tipping point; get better, or get worse. Everything inside 494 and694 is toast of course.
But if you’d told me 20 years ago that CD8 was going to be solid red, I’d have said you were nuts. CD7 will never vote Democrat again – ever. CD1 is solidifying. CD2 could flip back (if the GOP doesn’t bodge it up, which they very well may).
Despair is a sin.
November 9th, 2023 at 8:59 am
Mitch, that is true, however, the GOP cannot win statewide elections because of the Twin Cities gorilla which I believe is a combination of idiot progressive ideas and frankly fraud. By the way, a few days ago, I looked up the property taxes on my old beloved home in St. Paul—-$8228.00!!!!! What do you get for that? Failing schools, rising crime, undrivable streets ( who’s taking the bet that this new tax will be diverted away from road repair and into bike lanes!!) and a new improved Summit Avenue for those bikesters!. We’ve moved away but i can’t help but look back like Lot’s wife.
November 9th, 2023 at 9:35 am
I looked up the property taxes on my old beloved home in St. Paul—-$8228.00!!!!
Yikes! The yearly tax on the house we just sold ~$400k was $3250.00
The yearly tax on the 10.5ac pig farm compound we’re building on 1/8 mile of shore on a crappy little lake is $15.00….at least for now, because it’s agricultural. It’s likely to go up….maybe as high as $500.00.
And we manage all that without reaping the financial benefits of abortion and child genital mutilation tourism.
November 10th, 2023 at 1:15 am
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