Tim Walz's Declining Minnesota

DFL Gov. Tim Walz is pushing Minnesota to the brink of irrelevance. This isn't a partisan attack. It's a policy attack. The DFL's machine doesn't listen to people. The DFL just crushes dissent. In the DFL's view, dissent isn't optional. It's crushed.

Gov. Walz's education agenda includes a push for ethnic studies. According to DFL legislation, "Ethnic studies analyzes the ways in which race and racism have been and continue to be powerful social, cultural, and political forces, and the connection of race to the stratification of other groups, including stratification based on gender, class, sexuality, religion, and legal status." Parents are fighting back.

"Kofi Montzka, a mother to three boys, said the language of the bill tells kids of color that they are stuck in a caste system based on their race. You might ask: why in the world would a black person speak against ethnic studies? Because not everything that sounds good is good," she said. "I’m sick of everyone denying the enormous progress we’ve made in this country acting like it’s 1930. We used to have a race-based system. We got rid of it and now you’re all trying to bring it back."

The DFL is wedded to these policies. That's why Minnesota is considered a no-go state for investors. Kevin O'Leary has ripped Minnesota twice this week, using the Fargo-Moorhead comparison to strengthen his argument. According to O'Leary, Fargo and Moorhead both had populations of 50,000 as recently as 25 years ago. That's ancient history according to O'Leary. Today, "Moorhead has a population of 30,000" while Fargo's population has skyrocketed to 260,000. The difference in O'Leary' opinion? North Dakota is "a gem for investment because it's got good policy. Right across the river, 200 yards away, from Fargo is a town called Moorhead. You get out and it looks like Cuba." There's only 30,000 people there. In Fargo, there's 260,000. "The difference? Minnesota policy. North Dakota policy. That's the difference. You're a nurse, you cross the river and you save 9.2% on your taxes."

Especially at a time of high inflation, that extra 9.2% is a big deal. Check out Sean Hannity's interview of Kevin O'Leary. It starts 32 minutes into this video:

Things like implementing ethnic studies, along with higher taxes, makes Minnesota more difficult to live in. Living in a state where the governor thinks his citizens are racists and where the governor thinks that high taxes aren't a deal-breaker with families causes families to vote with their mortgages and their rental leases. Productive people are leaving Minnesota. They're being replaced by less-than-productive people. That's the fact of the matter. The next time a DFL politician tries selling you the vision that Minnesota is a great place to live, ask them why productive people are leaving Minnesota.