Soviet leader Gorbachev wishing to whitewash marxist communism and still govern like a socialist visited Gov. Perpich's Minnesota in 1984.
Posted on 05/09/2025 4:48:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Minnesota has been in the news a lot in recent years, and not in a good way. This essay is a wistful look back at the decline of a once great state.
I moved to Minnesota in 1975, partially inspired by the famous Time Magazine cover featuring Governor Wendall Anderson holding up a caught walleye, touting the “Good Life in Minnesota.” I came for the good life and the in-state college summer school rates offered by the University of Minnesota.
I ended up getting a job in Minneapolis, putting down roots, getting married, having three kids, eventually owning three businesses and owning four Minneapolis houses.
The good life narrative was mostly true. Minnesota was a low-crime, high–quality of life state for most of that time. Yes, the state had liberal tendencies but mostly the do-good, community caring type of liberalism in keeping with the state’s Scandinavian founding population and embodied by politicians such as Hubert Humphrey and Paul Wellstone.
Over the first three decades of my life in MN, the political environment was mixed but acceptable. Interspersed with elected Democrats were Republicans such as senators Dave Durenberger, Rudy Boschwitz, and Rod Grahams. Even as recently as 2011, the state benefited from two-term Republican governor Tim Pawlenty.
But in the last several years, things have changed radically. Democrat Governor Mark Dayton was no friend of freedom-seekers during his reign from 2011 to 2019. But things were to turn far worse. The election of Tim Walz in 2019 brought in an unprecedented level of wokism and oppressive state control. Tax hikes increased in the already overtaxed state. Tampon Tim earned the nickname featured in his hopelessly failed V.P. candidacy for mandating that menstrual products be available in public school boys’ bathrooms as young as fourth grade. Walz was one of the most
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Poverty pays. Who knew? That is the reason for all the homeless - Payola!
The federal programs provided reimbursements for meals distributed to “low-income
children” by faked Somali food sites...... like schools, nonprofits, restaurants, and more.
Poverty pays. Who knew? That is the reason for all the homeless - Payola!
If you’re a Somali crook, it pays off bigtime.
I refer to Minnesota as the Peoples Republic of Minnesota, a fitting monicker given the increasingly communist trends in the state. Democrats in Minnesota are known as the Democrat Farmer Labor Party, living up to the image of the hammer and sickle emblem of the former Soviet Union. Minnesota used to be billed as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but has now become the Land of 10,000 Taxes. The area of the state outside the Twin Cities metro area , known locally as outstate Minnesota, is still decent, the lakes are beautiful and the people are typical of the Midwest. Tampon Tim Walz, however, disparaged outstate Minnesota as having only rocks and cows. The best hope for this state is for the Twin Cities to become part of Canada.
I left Minnesota a few years back, I will never live there again.
After passed age 55, I began to hate cold. Before age 50 I downhill skied every chance I got, won 3 NASTAR racing medals. Favorite place to ski was Indian head in upper peninsula of Michigan. There were many nice ski clubs in Chicago area. We would leave on Friday after work, bus would take us to a nice motel, skied all day Saturday & Sunday and back in Chicagoland after midnight on Sunday. Great times.
Google Royal Oaks CC in Vancouver, WA.
My whole family loved membership there.
It is a gorgeous & challenging golf course. One of my daughters became very skilled at golf and was captain of her high school golf team. Even my wife who had never played golf before enjoyed playing in 9-Holes women’s league.
Soviet leader Gorbachev wishing to whitewash marxist communism and still govern like a socialist visited Gov. Perpich's Minnesota in 1984.
“”I feel dumber just for reading your reply.””
By your own statement, you’re admitting that you didn’t have far to go!
I spotted one significant error in the article.
> For example, the recent Feeding Our Future scam revealed $250,000 in stolen money from needy families,
Actually, they were convicted of stealing $250 _MILLION_. Does anyone know how to contact American Thinker and suggest a correction?
When FL government runs a surplus, the legislature’s reaction is “how do we return these funds to taxpayers?”
Even now, the legislature formed a committee to determine the feasibility of eliminating real estate taxes on homesteaded property.
The committee is due to report this coming September.
Love my Florida!
Florida just banned fluoride in water! That I like. I can use fluoride toothpaste, I do not need to drink that chemical.
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