Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz and his majority Democratic legislature have rescued the state from its previous notions of following the Right Wingin Honchos of the GOP and their drooling sycophants down into the stench of dark rabbit holes where no one with a brain should go.
Once the Democrats took control last year, they have not wasted any time. They got busy right out of the gate.
Minnesota has recently:
- Passed a law with broad protection of abortion rights in January
- Governor Waltz signed an order back in March to protect transgender kids and their families .
- In May, Cannabis was legalized .
- The Democratic controlled government promises more of the same in the near future.
This is what happens when Democrats control the legislative process, at least it is what happens now since the Right has gone bat shit crazy with their fear and loathing efforts to regress back to a Past that never existed in the first place. The GOP declared that a Culture war is far and away more important than actually governing and improving people's lives. It is as if ruining the lives of the not so few will somehow improve the selfish lives of the Right in substantive ways.......... Winger Logic --- I will never get it. ..............
"Who cares who gets screwed as long as I think I am doing better."
I am mentioning Governor Tim Waltz because of a brief interview he had with Willie Giest of MSNBC.
Willie asked him what was it like to be next door to North and South Dakota who were currently locked in with the current Right Wingin insanity agenda. Paraphrasing or maybe just reading between the lines, he insinuated they were both whacked out and that, "They should mind their own damn business".
The Govenor's sentiment regarding "minding one's own business" is understandable ..........
BUT ......
The Republican Party and the fringe tinfoil brigades circling them are all about minding everyone's business, not just their own. The Wingers are no longer willing to leave people to their own devices in almost every facet of their lives. The Right wants to inject their twisted morality by passing laws that will force all of us into their fold by curtailing freedoms previously won over many years of struggle, trial and tribulations.
The GOP claims they are the party of Freedom. The problem is they want to be the ones who define what Freedom is and who can enjoy it.
As good an idea it is to "mind one's own business", speaking for myself, I cannot do that as long as the White Wingin Sociopaths continue down their path and force me to march in their parade.
Freedom is not the lock step mentality the Right think it is. Freedom for all is allowing as much leeway for folks to go their own way, live their own way and be spiritual in their own way. Life should never be a one way highway.
Later .......................................
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For today's post, I picked Green Day again. This tune, "Are We the Waiting/St. Jimmy" is off their "American Idiot" album, released in 2004. Not really tied in with the post. I just like it and the lyrics struck a chord with me. .... A sample:
Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope
I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allen Poe
Raised in the city in the halo of lights
Product of war and fear that we've been victimized
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