…or ever: Ryan Winkler is right.
And the Minnesota Federation of Teachers has gone full Brownshirt.
Notice that the “Resolution” says nothing about the Hamas Charter’s call for the extermination of the Jews “from the river to the sea”.
Weird.
Also – BDS is not “peaceful”. It’s just an unarmed form of belligerency.
Lest anyone doubted that Big Left today is Marxist to its foetid roots, we now join a white, uppser-middle class white progressive member of the Saint Louis Park School Board pulling intersectional rank on….
…Muslim parents objecting to porn in elementary schools:
That’s the thing about intersectionalism; while more virtue attaches to people the farther they go out on the intersectional tree (the transgender Afro-Muslim handicapped lesbian is the peak), the actual executive authroity is supposed to remain toward the center, with the white “prog” women.
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.
The incredibly aptly named Representative Debbie Dingell lectures us on semantics:
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free“ means different things to different people in different times!“, says the font of wisdom, in rising to the defense of the loathsome modern Nazi Rashida Tlaib.
And she’s right, in a sense.
The phrase “the final solution” can mean a lot of different things; it can be the formula that gets rid of your Creeping Charlie, or solves your credit card debt. So, too, can the German phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei”, or “work will set you free” which, set free of other context, seems straight out of Horatio Alger
Except.
Except when you’re talking about people who wanted, or want, to remove Jews, from some corner of the world.
Then, they mean exactly one thing, and one thing only. And anyone who pretends otherwise is being disingenuous, precious, a useful, idiot, or lying like a sack of garbage.
And if Dingell is capable of being anything, it might very well be all four.
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 for a traumatic brain injury?”
It’s the middle way, after all. The guy with the bat might even say “sure, I just wanna hit you, hard!“
You might respond “No – in fact, I don’t want anyone hurting me in any way. At all”
And the buttinski responds “Why won’t yiou compromise?”
Who’s right?
You?
The guy with the bat?
Or the person striving to find the middle ground between the two of you?
If your response is “I’m putting my foot down; nobody is hitting me with a bat for any reason at all“, and the other to ask “why do you hate the guy with the bat?“, does that change anybody’s mind?
Point being, sometimes the middle path, the compromise, is not the most moral path forward.
Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7.
But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge.
Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They may couch it in intersectional twaddle, they may hedge the ugly parts.
But a generation that grew up chanting “punch a Nazi” yapping about colonialism and calling their elders “fascists” around the Thanksgiving table are now supprting an actual Fascist regime that actually is killing minorities to further a thousand year old colonial movement.
Why?
The first order of business is to heap scorn on a generation that has adopted this morally bankrupt perspective and the older adults in their lives who have so maliciously led them astray. The second task at hand is for us to understand what convinced the younger generation to sacrifice their humanity upon the altar of an intellectual fad. The answer can be found, at least in part, in one odious word that has claimed the benignity of this generation and so many before them: “framework.”
On October 13, the Atlantic published a fascinating reflection by Helen Lewis on the callous indifference her compatriots on the American left have shown toward the wanton murder of Jews for being Jews. She correctly identified the origins of this phenomenon in the intellectualization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on college campuses, which flattens the distinctions between civilian and terrorist, between West Bank and Gaza, between Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, and so on. But that flattening is the outcome. The instrument that pummels the complexities of the region into an unrecognizable paste is that detestable word, “framework.”
“Fitting Israel into the intersectional framework has always been difficult, because its Jewish citizens are both historically oppressed—the survivors of an attempt to wipe them out entirely—and currently in a dominant position over the Palestinians, as demonstrated by the Netanyahu government’s decision to restrict power and water supplies to Gaza,” Lewis wrote. Intersectionality is, indeed, the “framework” on display here. It started out as little more than a thought experiment, but it has since transmogrified into a way of life.
While our modern academic class is largely parasitical and counter-useful, they have perfected the art of self-serving logical gymnastics.
Henco is going to have a “contested” County Commission race, where “contested” means “a battle between bad, worse and worst” .
I think the found ‘worst”.
People inexperienced in the ways of Metro “progressives” might joke “I wonder if she’s going to put “Irritating people into behavioral change” into her campaign literature, yuk yuk”.
To those who know the breed, it’s not a joke. The suburban white upper-middle-class “progressive” seeks out different flavors of trite masochism and whiffle-ball self-abnegation – paying for bags, making “stolen land declarations”, putting up “In This House” signs – that have little financial and no moral cost, to signal dubious but convenient virtue to the less englightened.
I bet she wins.
A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves.
When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” – a society where people don’t trust their institutions, or each other, to do the right thing; reverting to the “Law of the Jungle” becomes expedient, initially – and, eventually prudent.
And when it’s the criminal justice system?
It never took a rocket scientist to believe the Chauvin trial was swayed by, not so much “public opinion” but by “potential mob rage”.
But it’s actually written down in black and white:
I’m not saying the DFL in this state is trying to create a low trust society.
I’m just at a loss for what they’d be doing different if they were.
Given that justices Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett were appointed and confirmed via the same process that has covered for over 200 years…
… can someone tell me how our “junior senator” trying to popularize this kind of garbage isn’t a bigger threat to our system of government, the January 6 ever was
As we noted the other day, Target is closing nine stores in four, blue, cities.
The news brought out a flood of expert social media opinion from people who have never worked in the productive private sector. “Target is just using teh crime to cover up teh realz reazons they’re closing” was the big line around mid-week.
Including this, from our long time acquaintance, Molly Priesmeyer.
You may remember Molly – and “award winning journalist“ who is never let the fact she doesn’t know anything about a subject stop her from writing about it.
She turns her keen-eyed expertise to the world of business:
Let’s be frank – many things can be true simultaneously.
Business ain’t easy. Balancing supply, demand and asking price isn’t for the faint of heart, and that’s before you get into taxes, regulations, and externalities like regular “shrinkage”.
WIth all that, though, Target’s been in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and even NYC for literally decades, through good times and bad, ups and downs in markets, the works.
And the closures aren’t spread across the entire market.
As far as Target’s security? Not sure if they’re better than the FBI – but let’s say they perfected teh art of store security. That means they catch thieves, grifters, swindlers and other ne’er do wells.
And then…
Well, Target may do a lot of things, but rthey don’t run any county attorney’s offfices. Or any city councils, especially the ones making laws like shoplifting less than $900 doesn’t even warrant a charge, much less a sentence.
Target’s big, but not that big.
Perhaps “award winning journalist” Priesjeyer has some insight on the facts that aren’t apparent from, well, the facts. I’m all ears.
Citing the rise in meth-related crimes and low revenue, Target is closing nine stores in Nebraska, Kentucky and Montana.
Just kidding. They’re in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and New York City:
Target is closing nine stores in major cities across four states, claiming theft and organized retail crime have made the environment unsafe for staff and customers – and unsustainable for business.
The big box chain is part of a wave of retailers – both large and small – that say they’re struggling to contain store crimes that have hurt their bottom lines. Many have closed stores or made changes to merchandise and layouts.
Of course, the hecklers are out in force; “crime can’t possibly be that bad…”.
It’s not clear that crime is growing significantly more serious. But as economic fears grow amid inflation and rising borrowing costs, shoplifting often comes with the territory, industry watchers say.
Somehow I suspect that’s not the reason these small businesses in Oakland were bucking the narrative:
Target was not the only retailer to raise concerns about retail crime today. Approximately two hundred Oakland business owners closed up shop for a couple hours Tuesday morning and held a demonstration to bring attention to crime plaguing the area.
Target was not the only retailer to raise concerns about retail crime today. Approximately two hundred Oakland business owners closed up shop for a couple hours Tuesday morning and held a demonstration to bring attention to crime plaguing the area.
If there were just some sort of connecting thread…
Ever wonder why people on the left are so fond, over the past decade, of referring to people who disagree with them as “Fascists”?
Well, of course, it’s because of all the Republican governors who use their power to bulldoze constitutional checks and balances – in the case of this conservative governor, deciding she doesn’t really need the legislature to create or repeal laws, and waterboarding the definition of “public health crisis” into compliance to do it?
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in response to a spate of gun violence.
Or maybe it’s this “new right” prime minister, telling the world we need to destroy free speech to save it:
Because we’re “at war”.
Conservative love to turn social disagreements into “wars” to justify their overreach. It of course peaked when the conservative MAGA president gave a speech during which he “othered” half of the nation, in a speech redolent with martial natinalistic imagery…
… that fairly shouted “the time is nigh to do something about it”, part of a campaign of “othering” dissent that started in 2009.
Or maybe it’s the fact that a majority of Republicans favor curbing free speech “for the greater good”
On the issue of free expression, at least, Republicans are not the authoritarian party. That distinction belongs to the Democrats, the party launched by Thomas Jefferson — the Founding Father who famously said that if he were forced to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Wait.- wut?
Why, it’s almost as if Berg’s Seventh Law is inviolable and absolute or something.
Democrats warned me that if we voted GOP, we’d have fascism in the US.
And they were right:
Last Friday, New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, announced a 30-day ban on the right to carry open or concealed firearms in public. She and the state health secretary, Patrick Allen, declared, “Gun violence and drug abuse currently constitute statewide public health emergencies,” and that provided sufficient justification for the governor to repeal the concealed-carry law, first passed in 2001, as well as the state’s open-carry law.
In New Mexico, about 46 percent of adults have at least one gun in their home.
The New Mexico state legislature is not under fire, missing, or incapable of performing its duties. It adjourned on March 18, and is scheduled to begin its next session January 16, 2024. The state legislature meets for a 60-day regular session in odd-numbered years, and for a 30-day regular session in even-numbered years. The governor can call a special session to deal with emergency legislation that needs attention before the next regular session; the state legislature can also declare its own “extraordinary session” and meet outside of the normal session, if three-fifths of each chamber agrees.
No Democrat can be allowed to live this down.
“A Gaffe is what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
— Michael Kinsley
Governor Walz may have committed a gaffe the other day:
He’s being too modest.
With its proposed ban on liquid fuel, the DFL is working to ensure that no matter where you grow up or go to school, you have to stay in your community.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has one at least one level of its case to legalize citizens ages 18 to 20 for carry permits.
Keith Ellison, being Keith Ellison, is fighting them:
So just so we are clear on this: in the state of Minnesota, if you’re a 10 year old who has decided they want to get themself chemically castrated, you have full legal standing.
If you’re a 20 year old veteran of the Armed Forces who wants to defend themselves, you are not only not old enough, you are an unperson.
This may be the perfect metaphor for the state of Minnesota today.
NOTE: Nobody of any age should write blog posts using “voice to text“ without taking the time to edit.
The DFL wants “assisted suicide”:
Further evidence of Big Left’s contempt for human life.
Fearless predictions:
2024: “assisted suicide” for specific conditions.
2026: “Conditions” list expanded to include depression, fatigue. (Like Canada)
2030: List expanded again to include “state thinks you’re too expensive (Netherlands)
2033: List includes political undesirables.
The Georgia Attorney General is bringing RICO charges against 60+ “Anti”-Fa droogs:
“We contend the 61 defendants together have conspired against the construction of the Atlanta public safety training center by conducting, coordinating, and organizing acts of violence, intimidation, and property destruction,” said AG Carr, in a press conference on Tuesday.
As alleged in the indictment, the defendants are members of Defend the Atlanta Forest, which Carr described Tuesday afternoon as an anarchist, anti-police, and anti-business extremist organization.
Time to remind your “progressive” friends that “Anti”-Fa is the lineal descendant of the German Communist Party’s version of the Brownshirts – and unlike the Brownshirts, they still exist.
Watch for Democrats to claim RICO is an affront to democracy later today.
“Civilians shouldn’t have guns. Leave it to the experts”.
Some people are asking “why are IRS agents shooting?”
Those people would probably be a little alarmed to know that the Departments of Energy, Education, Interior, even HHS, have armed agents, and even access to “SWAT” teams.
I had an avocational acquaintance once upon a time who worked for the Department of Justice. He was a nice enough guy – and a preeningly arrogant old-school east coast liberal Democrat who’d gone to an Ivy League school and grad school as a third-generation legacy. His contempt for the law-abiding citizen’s right to keep and bear arms was legendary.
But he went to a session the BATFE threw at a government shooting range, to orient Federal employees to various kinds of firearms. He spent a day at the range, firing a bunch of handguns and a Heckler and Koch MP5 submachine gun, under (purportedly, given the story above) close supervision from the BATFE agents involved.
And, voila, he considered himself one of the chosen people with the secret handshake that should be allowed to be armed.
Because he’d “had training”.
Unlike all of us hoi polloi who’d been plinking away for decades, naturally.
I pride myself in being able to turn DFL English into Honest English.
Example:
Translated into “Honest”
While other states are getting agenda-porn out of middle schools, MN is writing a different story.
And by “writing”, we don’t mean the actual kids. They can’t write for s**t now, and it’s not gonna get any better.
And by “story”, we mean “checks that shovel more money into the greedy maw of an unaccountable Dept of Education that’s already made countless corrupt DFL-linked nonprofiteers wealthy.”
I’m happy, as alwatys, to help.
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Why, no, stupid peasants. Nobody is taking your guns.
I mean, nobody is taking your gas stoves.
Ooos. Nobody is going to convert all cars to electric.
Whoopsie. I mean nobody is going to surreptitiously convert the power grid to something that can’t sustain life in any place where the temperature gets below 40.
D’oh! I mean, nobody is…
…er, what’s nobody doing?
Oh, yeah. The bug thing. That’s what hobody ever said anything about.
Your bad.
Modern “progressivism” could pull off something that Hitler and Stalin themselves could only do via overt means at a time when it was very hard to move your capital around the world: make it possible to destroy dissenters financial lives.
It’s called “Debanking”:
And for all of Big Left’s yappng about “Fascism”, it is in fact the real thing
Borrowed with permission from a friend on social media:
When I moved to Minnesota in May 2010, I had just graduated college and taken a job offer in Edina. In the aftermath of the Great Recession jobs were scarce, especially in Milwaukee, and a young man trying to make it on his own had to be willing to uproot his life for greater opportunities.
I joined a local Christian urban mission and moved into a neighborhood filled with violence and poverty and beautiful people who God loves. I was enthralled by the vivid colors of Minneapolis, the hustle and bustle, the natural beauty of the city combined with over a century of human gardening that created a city of lakes and parks amidst neighborhoods and skyscrapers. I loved the breweries, the neighborhood pubs nestled between homes, the intimidating importance of people striding in the skyways, the spectacular events that brought everyone together like the Basilica block party, the way strangers would become neighbors when three feet of snow forced us all to work together to dig out city buses.
I told anyone who would listen that Minneapolis was my favorite city. That there was nowhere else I’d rather live. Especially compared to Milwaukee, it was difficult to make friends here – the old adage “if you want friends in Minnesota, go to kindergarten” was spot on. But I found some spectacular people who loved Jesus and wanted to see the city face its ignored injustices and thrive together. I wanted to spend the rest of my life here.
After dedicating my entire adult life to the city working in its worst neighborhoods to right its worst wrongs, 2020 came along and the air changed. When a governor illegally mandates you stay in your home, unable to even visit your parents next door while states like Florida are totally open, something about your trust in government breaks. When you realize your neighbors are going quietly along with this fundamental break from democracy, you look at them differently. They can’t be trusted either.
Somehow, the air tastes different. It smells different. It doesn’t refresh or enliven – it loses its life-giving potency.
When citizen journalists publish story after story of someone murdered by a violent criminal who prosecutors and judges had dead to rights but refused to imprison, the air changes.
When you realize that half of abortions in Minnesota are paid for by tax dollars and the state enables elective abortion until birth, the air changes.
When the legislature, with one vote majority, declares Christian parents abusive and threatens to take custody of their kids, the air feels downright poisonous. When the Star Tribune and KARE fail to even mention this in the news, it sinks on your chest like a weight that the fix is in.
After all that, things don’t feel the same. You don’t feel like you can enjoy even nature, the trees and lakes. Surely the leaves hold no responsibility for the great evil that has become Minnesota, but they become symbols, reminders of something dark.
Every breath you draw into your lungs feels tainted somehow. If you’ve ever inhaled a gas that stopped you halfway and forced you to cough instead, you know what I mean. You feel suffocated, every day. You yearn for true air, true breath, true freedom.
You shine your light in the darkness every day, but over time, you realize your batteries are fading, and the light is dimming. There is only so much darkness a human soul can take.
This morning I woke up in our new home in Tennessee. Finally, I breathed deep, and was reminded of the example of my ancestors whose strength and determination brought them across the sea to become a political bloc whose American power ultimately put so much pressure on the UK that it had to relent and, after 700 years of tyranny, restore freedom in Ireland.
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“But if at last our colours should be torn from Ireland’s heart
Her sons with shame and sorrow from the dear old isle would part
I’ve heard a whisper of a land that lies beyond the sea
Where rich and poor stand equal in the light of freedom’s day
Oh Ireland, must we leave you, driven by a tyrant’s hand
And seek a mother’s blessing from a strange and distant land
Where the cruel cross of England shall never more be seen
And in that land we’ll live and die for the wearing of the green”
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Oh, believe me – I understand the motivation.
I can’t imagine life without the fight – but I can imagine life elsewhere.
Forget balancing power between the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches. Democrats – including Kwesi Mfume, one of the most powerful people in Washington – have a view that’s more in line with the likes of…
…I dunno…
…Lavrentii Beria.
Earlier this week, the Facebook page of the Scott County GOP compared Governor Walz and the DFL’s legislative majority to to Hitler and Stalin.
Silly Republicans. Only Democrats get to make specious, scabrous, historically-void comparisons to dictators.
Now, as someone who studies history – especially the history of tyranny – very seriously, I’d like to make two points:
Because it’s not like tyrannies generally drop in on society unannounced.
Tyranny, like cancer, has four stages. There is no stage five.
(Definition of terms: “Regime” is used in the original French sense of the term; it means the person, people or parties running the government).
| Stage | Characteristics | Examples |
| Stage I | Regime uses populist means to expand government power to the detriment of citizens individual rights. Key institutions – media, education, the bureaucracy – find it in their interest to scratch the regime’s back, politically and socially. | ??? |
| Stage II | The regime is part of an open coalition with the state’s bureaucracy, news media and social institutions, and are weaponized against the opposition. Opponents are actively targeted by the media, law enforcement, education and academia. Opposition parties and uncoopted institutions are actively harassed, either legally (via a legal system whose interests largely coincide with those of the regime) or via direct action groups “secretly” affiliated with the regime – who are able to operate fairly openly. Peaceful change of power is subject to a process controlled by the regime; being an opposition politician frequently results in harassment. | Orban, Erdogan |
| Stage III | All institutions of the state are more or less openly and directly controlled by the regime. Opposition is harassed to the point where it largely or completely exists underground. Opponents are eliminated in ones and twos, using a co-opted version of the judicial process or, sometimes, direct action; the direct action groups are either tightly affiliated with the state, or are actually stage agents (the police). Peaceful change of power depends on the good will of the regime (as with post-Franco Spain); being an opposition politicians runs a very high risk of exile, prison, disappearance or death. . | Franco, Mussolini |
| Stage IV | The Regime, it’s power and society as a whole are indistinguishable. All institutions are subsumed by the regime, which has an absolute monopoly on information and force. Opponents – or those perceived as opponents, or scapegoats – are eliminated in boxcar lots, sometimes literally; being “underground” is profoundly dangerous. Change of power is a lethal matter; the regime recognizes no power but itself. | Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un. |
I’d say the Walz administration is a solid stage 1.
Thoughts?
If you’re a conservative in Minnesota, you’ve got friends moving elsewhere. I personally have friends, including some of the regulars here, who’ve moved or are planning to move to any of the less-insane states; the Dakotas, Tennessee, Texas, Republican northwest Wisconsin, and of course Florida – a state where expats from Minnesota are almost as big a cliche as New Yorkers.
Not me.
And not John Phelan of the Center of the American Experiment.
Phelan gives his three reasons. I agree with ’em all – and I’ve got one of my own to add:
I’m going to start at the end of the list:
Finally, and most importantly, Minnesota is still a wonderful place to live. Its scenery is beautiful, its weather varied (or challenging, depending on your view), and its people decent, none of which, of course, depends on high taxes. When you have something good it is worth fighting for even when you feel the odds are against you. Perhaps especially then.
I’m from North Dakota. The weather in southern Minnesota is like a 12 month vacation (at least since I got AC in my car and bedroom).
The larger point? I was here first.
Second, even while its economy splutters, crime rises, test scores fall, the lights go out, and residents flee in numbers not seen in at least three decades, Minnesota’s government is being lauded as an example by progressives around the country. NBC News, the Daily Beast, and the New York Times have all run pieces lately praising the state government and Gov. Walz in particular. It matters to the entire country that the sad truth about Minnesota gets out.
Because whether you live in Orono or Orlando, they are coming for you, like it or not. Might be next election cycle, it might be when your grandkids are married and having kids of their own, but they’re playiing the long game.
And here’s the big one (I’m adding emphasis):
First, the liberal grip on Minnesota is not as tight as it seems. In 2022, the DFL’s party unit took in nearly $24 million from all sources while the state Republican Party took in a paltry $1.3 million. Even so, and with the built-in advantage of a friendly media, the DFL took the state Senate by just one seat and that by just 321 votes. The DFL is governing like a party that just scored 60 percent of the vote, not because they did, but precisely because they didn’t, and they want to ram their agenda through before Minnesotans cotton on to what they’re up to.
Minnesota has eight congressional districts (for nine more years, anyway).
That’s 4-4 – and with the right candidate in the right year, 5-3.
Yes, the DFL balllot-harvesting machine gives the DFL a huge lift with the metro vote – but if the legislature stays in play, that gives us gridlock. Not the eternal blue nightmare. And given how many Republicans stayed home last year, and how close the GOP candidates came in the Attorney General and State Auditor races, despair is premature.
They can’t overturn Roe again, after all.
And the DFL knows it.
The DFL’s awareness of this weakness is evident, too, in its attack on democracy by making it practically impossible for third parties to get on the ballot in Minnesota. Not a single reporter asked a single legislator a single question about this.
Last week, President Obama tweeted, “If you need a reminder that elections have consequences, check out what’s happening in Minnesota.” He is exactly right. Our state is about to move from the “fool around” to the “find out” stage of voting for ever higher taxes, ever higher government spending, and ever bigger government. Minnesota needs its conservatives now more than ever.
Which brings us to Reason #4. The fight is worth fighting.
My ancestry is half Viking and 1/4 lowland Scots white trash. We fight just to stay awake, ffs.
What the hell is there to do in this life but fight?
I was here first. I’m not going anywhere.