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The Midwest Twilight Zone and the Death of Common Sense
American Thinker ^ | 28 Mar, 2025 | David Manney

Posted on 03/28/2025 5:02:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How long can a region project normalcy while its leadership writes policy in a fantasy dialect?

By any honest reckoning, the American Midwest has long stood as the republic’s last great firewall of common sense -- where decency is currency and a handshake still means something. But lately, the region’s governors have sounded less like the voice of the plowman and more like the echo of a faculty lounge panel at Oberlin. In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois, the executive mansions seem to have been annexed by ideology, not elected by people.

Let’s begin with Minnesota governor Tim Walz. His administration mandated tampons in boys’ bathrooms -- a sentence that would have been flagged as satire only a few years ago. Here’s a state where winters kill you, and potholes breed like rabbits, yet we’re told the urgent moral crisis is menstrual equity for high school males. Does anyone really believe Tim from Two Harbors, who works 10-hour days and hunts on the weekend, is pounding the table for tampon dispensers in the boys' gym? It’s a cartoonish abstraction -- policy driven not by reality but by performative progressivism. Even George Orwell would have rolled his eyes.

And then there’s Wisconsin’s governor Tony Evers, who referred to a pregnant woman as an “inseminated person.” That isn’t a typo. That’s a full-frontal assault on language and humanity in one breathless phrase. It’s as if someone replaced the Midwestern political lexicon with the instruction manual for artificial cattle breeding. Evers’s comment would be laughable if it weren’t such a naked attempt to erase the distinction -- and the dignity -- of womanhood. The same logic that births “birthing persons” and “chest feeders” now gives us “insemination people,” and the silence from the sane is growing louder.

But wait -- we’re not done

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: illinois; leftism; michigan; midwest; minnesota; wisconsin

1 posted on 03/28/2025 5:02:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

A majority of the voters are electing crazy people and they don’t even realize what they have done.


2 posted on 03/28/2025 5:05:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“How long can a region project normalcy while its leadership writes policy in a fantasy dialect?”

A great part of the problem is that the Democrats see California as the idealized way of things and that in turn filters down to Democrats who control places like WI, MI, IL, and elsewhere like that.


3 posted on 03/28/2025 5:07:33 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: MtnClimber

You want to see a governor with no soul go to KS.


4 posted on 03/28/2025 5:16:57 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: MtnClimber; All
You're right. The schools and MSM have cultivated the idea that if, consequences (good or bad) exist at all, they are not the result of what anyone has done.

Personal responsibility has become an alien concept so people have only the most superficial grasp of consequences resulting from their actions or views. They see no correlation between their actions or ideas and the unavoidable result.

Personal responsibility, along with the concept if individual integrity, have been bred out of US voters

5 posted on 03/28/2025 5:24:57 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

“elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences” is NOT just an old saying. “idiocracy wasn’t JUST a dumb movie script”. “the more things change, the more they remain the same”. “insanity is voting for the same politicians expecting things to get better”. “IF it’s important to you you will find a way and if not you will find an excuse”. “But I didn’t vote for this because I didn’t vote” is just one of those excuses. oh well...”we always seem to get the government we deserve”. even those who don’t. majority rule or something like that.


6 posted on 03/28/2025 5:30:39 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber

Are you sure?

Because there are illegals and muslims voting and there is fraud everywhere these days.


7 posted on 03/28/2025 6:00:05 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: MtnClimber

The writer misses the point. Each of these states has large blue urban concentrations which elect the governors for all intents and purposes. If one looks at the county by county vote, this is crystal clear. Red states dominated by dark blue urban blots. Cities are cities, mostly, no different in the Midwest than on the coastal crusts. Justifies the perception of Thomas Jefferson that cities are havens of vice and corruption.


8 posted on 03/28/2025 6:01:52 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

Urban centers have, historically, been the most prone to election fraud and corrupt political machines.


9 posted on 03/28/2025 6:10:39 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

I have always found it curious (it would be amusing if it were not deadly serious) that liberals seem to think that Orwell’s “1984’ is what the world of conservatives would be like if conservatives had their way.

The reality is, liberals are the ones who attempt to shape and control the meaning and use of words in an effort to shape and control thought.

A good example is the use of the word “gay” to describe homosexuals. They have succeeded brilliantly, in that it is nearly impossible to use the word “gay” in its original meaning anymore.

And that is just one example.

The Leftists do the same thing with symbols. Turning one of the most beautiful of God’s works and a sign of love to us, the rainbow, a sign from God that He would not visit a flood on us again. It was a physical sign of his covenant with us.

And the Left has twisted and perverted it’s meaning. Deliberately.


10 posted on 03/28/2025 6:20:04 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: marktwain

States need to amend their constitutions to establish Electoral Colleges.

That will help mitigate votes from the few blue districts swamping those from the many red districts.


11 posted on 03/28/2025 6:21:18 AM PDT by Westbrook (democRATs are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: MtnClimber

Even in states in the Midwest, the big cities are crazy.


12 posted on 03/28/2025 6:35:05 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: rlmorel

We need a new word to refer to the refractive atmospheric phenomenon that occurs after rainstorms because the word “rainbow” has been ruined. Maybe RAP might do.


13 posted on 03/28/2025 6:40:11 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: MtnClimber
The seeding of illegals into the Midwest has worked; they complement the warehoused people in the big cities to report large numbers of votes for democrats.

Illinois has Chicago and the St Louis suburbs; Wisconsin has Milwaukee; Minnesota has Minneapolis and St Paul; and of course, Michigan has Detroit. Without those welfare magnets, those states would look normal.

33 of the 102 counties in Illinois have voted to leave Illinois. So far nobody has started shooting (about this).

So far.

14 posted on 03/28/2025 6:52:30 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: MtnClimber

A majority of the voters are electing crazy people and they don’t even realize what they have done.

OR

A majority of the voteing machines are electing crazy people and they totally realize what they have done.

/-)

ymmv


15 posted on 03/28/2025 9:42:25 AM PDT by cuz1961
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