Minnesota: Uniquely imbecilic politically?

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October 13, 2024
Minnesota: Uniquely imbecilic politically?
By Eric Utter

States like California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York have long been hotbeds of leftist thinking and societal experimentation.

Which is why so many folks have fled them for elsewhere, usually red states.

Yet, if we go back far enough, we find that California gave us Ronald Reagan, Illinois gave us Abraham Lincoln, and Massachusetts gave us John Adams. And, just recently, New York bequeathed us Donald J. Trump.

Which led me to this thought: Minnesota is uniquely imbecilic, politically speaking. The Land of 10,000 Lakes, while beautiful, has also spawned about the same number of whacko politicians.

These include, but are by no means limited to, “Gov. Goofy,” Jessie “The Body” Ventura (who wasn’t Gov. Goofy), Rep. Ilhan Omar (who apparently temporarily married her brother), Al Franken, Tim Walz … and communists (but I repeat myself) like Gus Hall, who ran for president on four separate occasions, the last time in 1984. Gus was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) from 1959 until his death in 2000.  (Poor Gus might have just been about four decades ahead of the curve. He might have a fighting chance today.)

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[Lando Lincoln]

My mother hailed from Minnesota so I spent a lot of time there growing up. She was also very astute politically and very conservative. I miss her. Anyway, my observation has always been that Minnesota is weird with their politics. While a state such as Illinois is controlled by Cook and surrounding counties, you will encounter blue counties in rural Minnesota.