Speaking as a Midwesterner, let me give you my opinion of Tim Walz.
Walz needs to be seen in the context of the rapid fall of Minnesota, and particularly what happened to the Twin Cities.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul used to be one of the nicest, safest cities
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in the United States. The Mary Tyler Moore show was set there for good reason, it was friendly, safe place.
Minnesota used to be purple and quite centrist.
The local Democratic party is called the DFL - the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
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That was how Minnesota politics worked - the cities in the metro area allied with the unions (primarily in the mining Northeast) who allied with the farmers. They went against the Twin Cities suburbs and businessmen, it was always polite, and the state was even.
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The big shift happened with the mass influx of Somalis, along with the Dems trying to bring in blacks from other metro areas. The "nice" Repubs being controlled opposition, they of course did nothing to stop this process.
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The demographics changed sharply, crime rates soared, and the political situation rearranged itself.
Along with much of the rest of the country, enough of the suburbs switched to the Dems, that along with the newly black metro areas, the Dems began to get a decisive margin.
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Polite and nice stopped right there, the new DFL played strictly hardball politics
They also turned on their traditional constituencies of the farmers and the Iron Range union workers. As soon as they didn't need the votes, it was slap across the face, and knife in the back,
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they had no need for those traditional white Americans, or there traditional values.
Minnesota rapidly became the most radical of the Midwestern states, even more so than Chicago-dominated Illinois.
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Walz is a snake & a chameleon. Yes, he hunts, does the fishing opener & sometimes wears flannel shirts - all of which are used by the entirely Democratic Minnesota media to portray him as something he is not, a folksy politician with a common touch.
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Walz is despised in the outstate regions where the hunting & fishing are primarily done. Those areas have flipped from Blue to solid Red, as they try to protect themselves from the radical in the Twin Cities - to no avail.
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The real Walz? He's the face of the Great Replacement, that is followed by the Marxists crushing the opposition.
That's exactly why they want him as VP. He brings no election advantages. They're not worried about the election, but what comes after.
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responsibility, there is no doubt about that. The hollowing out of the productive class, the support of vast numbers of the lower class while importing still more, the open looting of the nation by the highest levels - this is the Left, and they are indeed pointing
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the aircraft right down at the ground. The woke embrace of DEI is just increasing the speed.
But yet, a very large part of the RW also enthusiastically embraces Decline. They have raised up very popular voices that tell people what they want to hear - and they too
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For years now, this has been fundamentally positive account. So, let's talk about the positives.
I believe in civilization. We live in an industrial civilization. Ignorant people may think it is post-industrial, because that describes their lives, but there is no person
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who is more vulnerable to the degradation of an industrial civilization than some who doesn't understand the basis of their lives.
The modern Global American Empire and most particularly the large urban areas rely upon a vast and complex industrial civilization that spans
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the entire globe. Interrupt the industrial flow of goods, and there is a swift degradation of the daily quality of life. With a severe disruption that is ongoing, then millions or tens of millions either die or go straight down to deep poverty. Human nature being what it is,
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The Heartland is primary source of American & RW power. We're the source of the current revolution in politics, when it comes to electoral votes, senators & representatives.
We're the source of manufacturing, energy, food & America's 1/
warrior class. Without the Heartland, in all our vast numbers from coast to coast, the self-styled RW thought leaders of the urban coasts would be completely powerless.
Somehow, they can't intellectually handle this, and you get truly weird stuff, like Mystery saying I have
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an inferiority complex. What? LOL, as anyone who has followed me for any time knows, I'm a wear it on my sleeve Heartland supremacist, there's no feelings of inferiority associated with coming from the best place in the nation and the world.
Call it "tough love", but it would be good for the UK to go to war. Same for Germany.
The reason is that War is the ultimate Truth Test. Narrative control doesn't matter, a domestic police state doesn't matter, it comes down to whether a nation, its leadership & people 1/
My apologies to my Brit frens, but the current state of Britain is pathetic. Deindustrializing. Invaded by immigrants. Run by totalitarians who hate their own people & nation. Incapable of real ongoing military production that can support a war.
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So, this would be what would happen. The small remains of the once great British army would go to Ukraine, with no artillery, most weapons systems already given to Ukraine, overrun by DEI - and they would get their asses kicked. Sorry about the casualties.
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There's no mystery in solving the declining fertility problem. It's culture, and most of the people in our culture are not willing to face up to that, because they don't like what is says.
Our culture as a whole is suicidal - but not all of it, by any means. 1/
In broad strokes, we know the negative factors: liberalism, urbanism, atheism, and women seeking careers instead of motherhood. Put that package together in a single woman, and the TFR is below 1, across all nations.
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In broad strokes, we also know the positive factors: conservatism, deep religious beliefs, less dense populations, and women who value giving more than taking, who dedicate their lives to serving others.
Women with all of those factors are well above 2.0 TFR.
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for a two front conflict. So the logical action is the pivot to Asia - which means substantially drawing down US military assets in Europe.
So, if a deal is struck, the US puts some daylight between Putin and Xi, while moving most troops and weapons to the Asian theater.
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That is a win-win for the US strategically.
At the same time, Europe is declining. Unless they somehow reverse course dramatically, they are likely to be militarily and economically weaker 3-4 years from now.
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