{"id":89761,"date":"2025-07-08T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89761"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:53:07","slug":"a-modest-counterproposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89761","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Counterproposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Strib&nbsp;<\/em>notes that the new Minnesota state flag is not getting traction outside DFL neighborhoods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/andybrehm\/status\/1941140296232046992\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I like Brehm&#8217;s idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I also think we should leave things as they are. Having two state flags &#8211; one foisted on the state by a pack of arrogant wannabe tyrants set on destroying institutions, the other flown in defiance &#8211; is a perfect metaphor for Minnesota today.<\/p>\n<p>Divisiveness was the intent of the new flag.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a state with a functioning GOP, that divisiveness could be driven home to roost &#8211; a powerful metaphor for a campaign built around rolling back the tyrannical excesses of the gaggle of middle school mean girls of all genders who ran this state into the ground.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the MNGOP won&#8217;t do it, someone needs to.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Strib&nbsp;notes that the new Minnesota state flag is not getting traction outside DFL neighborhoods: Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I like Brehm&#8217;s idea. But I also think we should leave things as they are. Having two state flags &#8211; one foisted on the state by a pack of arrogant wannabe tyrants set on destroying institutions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89763,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89761\/revisions\/89763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}