Pinky swear, the whole thing was a joke!
Years ago, when blogs were social media, I started making a series of satirical observations about people's behavior. The observations weren't purely about politics and political behavior. But given that my blog, and the talk show that I eventually started with Ed, focused so heavily on the romper room that is Minnesota politics, it was pretty inevitable that most of the observations would involve the state's dominant political class, even back in the day before the Minnesota DFL's detachment from reality started making daily headlines.
What wasn't inevitable was that these observations would actually ring true as facts about how progressive politics, politicians and people appear to think, operate and govern.
I started calling them "Berg's Law". And as the Democrat party nationally dribbles into Marxism, they are all the more pointed.
Case in point — in Minnesota this past week, we saw the DFL's theater kids demonstrating Berg's Eighth Law of Diversity, which reads as follows:
American progressives' reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from a sociopathic disorder.
And did they do exactly that?
Hey, it's called Berg's "Law" instead of Berg's "Suggestion" for a reason.
The first example: Lisa Demuth is the Minnesota GOP's candidate for governor. She's the speaker of the House. She presided for two years over a tied House, against Senate with a one-vote DFL advantage, and Governor Walz, who was at the time measuring the drapes in the Vice President's office — and she prevailed, leading to actual spending cuts, shutting down further tax increases (after the DFL's spending orgy of 2023-24) and, we are told, feeding information about fraud to the Feds and social media.
And she's black. If elected, she'd be both Minnesota's first female governor and first black governor.
As a conservative Republican.
And that's got the theater kids in a tizzy:
NEW: The Minnesota GOP says "radical DFL protesters stormed the stage" tonight at their Lincoln-Reagan Dinner https://t.co/Z3jA51Rxea
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) October 10, 2026
Which is peak Minnesota Democrat — a group of people who are coded "upper middle class suburban establishment", waving "KKK" signs at a black woman who grew up in South Minneapolis and rural Paynesville.
Now, it's enough to make one wonder why the DFL would do this — most of the polling is showing DFL Senator Amy Klobuchar with a comfortable lead. Klobuchar has near 100 percent name recognition, both from her 20 years in the Senate and having been the daughter of a ubiquitous Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist.
But the lead's been shrinking, and not only is Attorney General Keith Ellison, with popularity polls worse than President Trump's, underwater in polling against unknown Ron Schutz, but so is the State Auditor candidate (former Governor candidate Scott Jensen, running against a DFLer with name recognition so bad I don't even want to take a moment to google the name); it appears that if the polling is accurate, even if Klobuchar wins, she's going to have to run up an epic win to drag her Attorney General and Auditor over the finish line.
We're not done.
Cally Proctor is a mom from my old neighborhood in leafy green far-south Minneapolis. She's a self-described lifelong Democrat voter and social service worker whose kids were attending Annunciation School last year when a trans-identifying young man with a grudge against Catholicism opened fire, killing two. Her kids were safe — but her political preconceptions weren't.
I'll let her tell her own story — her twitter feed over the past year explains things pretty well — but somewhere along the way this past year or two she's had a political conversation. And is talking about it:
NEW AD: "Things have gotten crazy in Minnesota." That's Cally, a longtime DFLer and Wellstone Dinner volunteer. After years of rampant fraud and public safety failures, she's done. This year, she's voting for Lisa Demuth. https://t.co/P8aI0rmBCC
— Restore Sanity (@RestoreSanityMN) October 10, 2026
Now, it's always a good idea to avoid the comments on social media — but if you ever thought that Berg's Eighth Law was mere parody and not an airtight explication of progressive behavior, give them a read. They're downright psychotic.
Theodore Adorno once wrote while observing the rise of the Nazis that "satire is no longer possible". I suppose as long as we can still laugh at them there's hope.
Hopefully.
