In A State of Mourning

And in two weeks, I pray we do not Minnesota our nation!

Be reasonable! How many times do we hear that phrase? Politicians do not want to ban guns, they want "reasonable" gun control. Churches do not want to preach the gospel, which, if one truly studies God's work, is a "R" rated story, they want "reasonable" accommodations for everyone "wherever they are in their faith journey." Even in our boardrooms, DEI policies demand that our leaders make "reasonable" accommodations to an unfathomable number of society's aggrieved citizens. At least with the latter corporate example, the DEI-yoked executive still must figure out how to weasel out a profit while accommodating “reasonable” non-business interest objectives. For the church and politicians, no profit motive comes into play. At least not for the institutions themselves. There are great profits to harvest for the individuals who leverage their positions within those organizations who act "reasonably."

I live in a nice state. In fact, my state is so nice, and the people that live here are so nice that "Minnesota Nice" has become our unofficial state motto. Which is another way to say, we Minnesotans are reasonable, so very, very reasonable. And reasonable, don’t you know, is nice. However, thanks to our two-term "mind your own business" governor, we have witnessed the hurt that comes from being nice. Nice people, after all, keep the peace by accepting reasonable compromises. And Governor Tim Walz preyed upon our niceness and the results have made Minnesota the best of the worst!

CATO Institute’s just released Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2024, on October 15^th ranked Minnesota at the bottom of the chart for fiscal responsibility:

Minnesota’s dismal position on the CATO ranking scale is the result of being too nice. Gov. Tim Walz’s leadership has Minnesota ranked 44th on the Tax Foundation’s state business tax climate index. This will continue to drive talent and capital away from the state. According to the CATO report:

“In 2022, Walz said, “Cutting taxes for the wealthiest amongst us will not guarantee opportunities in Minnesota for the wider variety of folks, and it certainly won’t grow our economy from the middle out.” But Minnesota’s high tax rates are undermining the economy and driving away wealthy people, who include highly skilled job-creating entrepreneurs. IRS data show that the state loses about 10 households earning more than $200,000 for every 6 that it gains.”

Count me as one of the households exiting my state. I first left the City of St, Paul, which is a fiscal microcosm on steroids of Walz’s support of State-wide capital killing initiatives. I then left my Walz ravaged Minnesota business-based company in favor of a more business-friendly one in Kentucky. The only move I have left on my Walz induced exiting agenda is to vacate the state entirely – a day I look forward to celebrating as a victory of emancipation.

Until that future date arrives, I will continue to mourn the loss of my state to the forces of communism and pray that my nation does not select the presidential ticket that led Minnesota to the best at being the worst. If fact, as a show of mourning, I am ordering newly available “blackout” license plates for my car. Gov. Walz said the new plates bring back nostalgia for old car enthusiasts, but I will display the black plates as a symbol of mourning. For I am morning my state’s descent to the bottom of the CATO report list. I am mourning the loss of creative individuals and businesses. Mostly, I am mourning the fact that Minnesotans are so nice and so reasonable that they accommodated the communist in their governor’s mansion’s entire legislative agenda, instead of kicking him to the curb two years ago when we had the chance.

Have you ever noticed that communists are never nice? Never reasonable? Never compromise? The communist is always the one asking their opponents to be reasonable (nice). And when their opponent pushes back, the communist paints them with the hateful and unreasonable brush. There is no better communist at crafting this narrative of his enemy’s unreasonableness, than past president, Barack Obama. Just this past week as reported in the New York Times, “Speaking for nearly 50 minutes to a crowd of hundreds of supporters in the Charlotte Convention Center on Friday, Mr. Obama highlighted Gen. John Kelly’s claims that Mr. Trump had spoken admiringly of Hitler.” There is nothing compromising or reasonable in Obama’s campaign rhetoric. And getting their opponent to compromise is the communists’ only weapon of change, short of an actual barrel of a gun.

The communist preys on niceness to ever move the Overton Window their direction. It is a God-fearing human trait to at first, be nice. Society functions on Aristotle’s notion that it is better for us personally to treat our fellow citizens nicely as creating a lack of conflict in the people we meet, makes life more pleasant for us. But that niceness can be exploited and abused. Anyone who has experienced the abuse of a narcissist knows that being nice and making reasonable accommodations towards the narcistic mate will always be exploited for the narcist’s benefit. So too when our government leaders come to us demanding that we make reasonable accommodations to their hurtful policy dictates.

Being nice in an abusive relationship never buys peace overall. In fact, it only makes matters worse. And, where one can use gray rocking to deal with the narcissistic bully in their sphere, we cannot gray rock our way out of bad governance. For the narcissistic person in our midst only wishes to occupy the real estate in our head. The communists in our midst wants to dominate all real estate, including the vast creative acres between our ears. And there is nothing nice or reasonable in accommodating that!