{"id":86971,"date":"2024-02-07T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86971"},"modified":"2024-02-07T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:34:48","slug":"the-more-things-stay-the-same-the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86971","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Stay The Same, The More Things Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, Erin Murphy is the new MN Senate Majority Leader, replacing Senator Dziedzik (whom I wish the best in her ongoing battle with cancer). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What this means is that the old &#8220;Labor&#8221; coalition that ran the DFL and often Minnesota has been demoted to the back seat.  Dziedzik&#8217;s father was a long-time Northeast MInneapolis politician who was a perfect metaphor for the coalition; blue-collar, from Northeast or the Iron Range, pretty much your typical Perpich voter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murphy represents the, uh, great leap forward for the DFL:  Metro, public employee union, and not one degree behind The Squad in terms of perfect &#8220;progressive&#8221; credentials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, here we are:<\/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\/MNReformer\/status\/1755004045184336189\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; has anyone noticed that, if you left all anthropological terms out of the rhetoric, the &#8220;improvements&#8221; the DFL is making are the same kind of thing a farmer does to take care of a herd of livestock?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As opposed to <em>free people<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Erin Murphy is the new MN Senate Majority Leader, replacing Senator Dziedzik (whom I wish the best in her ongoing battle with cancer). What this means is that the old &#8220;Labor&#8221; coalition that ran the DFL and often Minnesota has been demoted to the back seat. Dziedzik&#8217;s father was a long-time Northeast MInneapolis politician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86974,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971\/revisions\/86974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}