Urban Progressive Privilege: Peak Karen

Henco is going to have a “contested” County Commission race, where “contested” means “a battle between bad, worse and worst” .

I think the found ‘worst”.

Edina City Council member Carolyn Jackson launched a campaign for a county commissioner special election that will take place this spring. She wants to bring a plastic bag fee to Edina, saying the public should be "irritated into behavioral change."https://t.co/IFkBULS9c7 pic.twitter.com/jIAhiGUiZw
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) October 18, 2023

People inexperienced in the ways of Metro “progressives” might joke “I wonder if she’s going to put “Irritating people into behavioral change” into her campaign literature, yuk yuk”.

To those who know the breed, it’s not a joke. The suburban white upper-middle-class “progressive” seeks out different flavors of trite masochism and whiffle-ball self-abnegation – paying for bags, making “stolen land declarations”, putting up “In This House” signs – that have little financial and no moral cost, to signal dubious but convenient virtue to the less englightened.

I bet she wins.

9 thoughts on “Urban Progressive Privilege: Peak Karen”

Is that hair of hers Lutheran-esque or just perky-dumb?

Blogging about the newest degenerate nutcase running for office in Minnesota elicits absolutely no surprise, or outrage. It’s just another day.

There’s a lesson there for lads quick enough to catch it.

When the economy is this good, people have time to focus on the little things that make life more enjoyable, the luxuries we otherwise could not afford, like fretting over plastic bags.

Or like paying Hamas $100 million in exchange for no hostages. In tough times that might be considered a crappy deal. In tough times people might think it was simply a way to pump up the G (government spending) in the formula for GDP to avoid admitting we are in a depression.

But we know better, right?

But Bigman, hold on….HAMAS can be counted on to spend that money for the betterment of their people….just like Zelensky and his capos did.

California initiated plastic bag fees at least by 2017, when I last visited, and the response of Safeway was to start using plastic that was a LOT–I’d guess at least 5x–thicker than the bags freely given away in other states. So ironically, it was a net ecological loss for the state, because it didn’t stop people from asking for them.

It’s also worth noting that the bags I get from the store work well for keeping humidity in rising bread (general replacement for Saran), picking up after my dogs, and carrying out garbage–and I get about the same discount for bringing my own bags (5 cents) as is the cost of plastic bags from the store. Each second/third use (be careful which ones you do in which order!) reduces my environmental impact.

So precisely what is to be gained by such a regulation is beyond me. We already have a better system in place than the one the politician would like to enact.