Madsplaining: Super Blue Walz and Media Silence
One man's folksy is another man's weird.
Vice President Kamala Harris last week announced that her pick for running mate was Minnesota governor, Tim Walz. Popular Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro had been considered the frontrunner, as late as the day before the announcement. But commentary I read seems fairly convinced: the Democrat’s pro-Palestine base would not have abided a Sabbath-keeping Jew on the ballot.
Walz is unlikely to outshine VP Harris as the charismatic Shapiro may have – a point not lost on political observers. Besides, having spent time as a school teacher and football coach, with a passion for hunting and ice fishing, pundits suggested that Governor Walz will appeal to rural voters. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised his “heartland values” and fans said he brings a “Midwestern dad” vibe to the ticket.
Walz was the one who first used the term “weird” to characterize conservatives, such as J.D Vance, who promote marriage, family and responsibility. “Weird” was picked up by Democrats, as well as by their newsroom accomplices, who used it as often as they could. After Walz was introduced as Harris’ pick, the news media donned their linguistic uniform once again, choosing “folksy” to describe everything about him. He’s a “happy warrior” who will fit right in with the Party’s emphasis on joy.
But it’s easy to argue that Walz brings nothing to the ticket that VP Harris doesn’t already offer in spades. Despite his small town credentials, he is super progressive. (Even President Reagan wished he could win Minnesota for Christmas, so it’s a tough gig.) Oklahoma Senator Dusty Deevers put together a laundry list of Walz’ crowning achievements to show he’s a radical as they come:
On abortion, Planned Parenthood rated him 100% for his anti-life laws.
He installed tampon dispensers in school boys’ bathrooms and signed laws which make Minnesota a “sanctuary state” for transgender youth.
He allowed illegal migrants to hold driver’s licenses, paving the way for them to register to vote.
As a coach, he took team to state championships, but learning results in the state under his watch have plummeted.
He said Republicans should let people mind their own business, yet he set up a hotline for Minnesotans to snitch on each other during covid.
He attends a Lutheran church – which hosts drag queens.
Walz served in the National Guard for two decades but says that citizens should not be allowed to own “weapons of war”.
Walz is being criticized for failing to send in troops to quell 2020’s race riots, while Minneapolis police station and businesses burned down. Even after he called in the National Guard, his daughter accessed confidential information to tip rioters off as to their location.
You get the idea. But you won’t hear much about it in the corporate media. They are happy to let those facts through to the memory hole. He’s a “moderate” don’t you know? And look! Over here! He has mastered dressing down in a way most politicians have not!
The biggest controversy, though, has struck a nerve with veterans, as revelations resurfaced that he left his unit high and dry when they were about to be deployed to Iraq. Evidence that he repeatedly misrepresented his service is readily available and is being compared to the stolen valor accusations against John Kerry during the Swift Boat Veterans affair. While Walz served 24 years in the National Guard, he never saw active combat overseas.
So what does the Harris-Walz ticket represent? As Andrew Klavan put it, a fantasy:
“I think we should ask them if DEI is so good, why is it bad to call Kamala Harris a DEI hire; if progressivism is so great, why do you have to convince us that Tim Walz is a moderate; if it's so wonderful to give porn to kids to elementary school kids, why can't I read the porn out loud at a PTA meeting? Why is it that everything they do has to be done in secret? It’s a fantasy.”
It’s a safe guess that Governor Walz is a true believer in the radical left’s vision for America. During a recent video conference, he encouraged supporters to “never shy away from progressive values”, saying one person’s socialism is another’s neighborliness.” Loving your neighbor, to Walz, amounts to government programs and power ensuring everyone gets anything they want, no matter how base. Except for the bigots, they get only scorn. They will be made to care.
But that vision is totally removed from reality and will not countenance human nature as it actually is. They want to believe that promoting the killing of babies in abortion mills doesn’t have any effect on a society. That steamrolling consciences with the transgender machine is ushering in a better morality. That allowing large populations into your country can be done with no downside. That it is compassionate to force others to affirm your delusion. That money is endless and middle Americans won’t mind being squashed if they can be on the “right side of history”. They keep trying to make relativism happen, believing you can deny God’s truth and just live and let live. Any leader who insists on disrupting the orders of creation, is not only making life miserable for those under their care, but they also risk storing up the wrath of God for disdaining their fellow humans.
It’s a fantasy.
There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.
Choosing your own reality does impact others around you, because humans are sinful. Progressives’ faith in humanity’s inherent goodness is misguided, their love of power is corrupting and their despising of those who came before is a weakness.
To defend his own running mate, President Trump recently said that vice presidents don’t really matter. And they kinda don't. But we need to be aware of the media gloss – the picture they paint of Governor Walz is not true to life. Nor is it true to reality.