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
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A majority of the voters are electing crazy people and they don’t even realize what they have done.
“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.
You want to see a governor with no soul go to KS.
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
“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.
Are you sure?
Because there are illegals and muslims voting and there is fraud everywhere these days.
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.
Urban centers have, historically, been the most prone to election fraud and corrupt political machines.
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.
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.
Even in states in the Midwest, the big cities are crazy.
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.
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.
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.
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ymmv
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