Minnesota Governor Tim Walz continues to be the poster child for the Democrat Party's total lack of self-awareness.
In a recent interview on the podcast "At Our Table" with former DNC chair Jaime Harrison, Walz expressed confusion as to why America doesn't see Democrats as being a party that exalts success in the business sector.
To his credit, he does recognize the extreme part of his party's problem with success, according to Fox News:
"We, as Democrats, we want people to pay their fair share, but why are we against people being successful like that? We can't be. Why are we against? We should talk about businesses. Not all businesses exploit their workers and we get ourselves stuck in that. And I think we lose them," Walz continued.
But he seemed to miss the reason why business owners are rejecting Democrat ideas on business... and I can tell him that he actually gave the reason why when he began his sentence.
"We, as Democrats, we want people to pay their fair share."
This is a Marxist phrase that, like most Marxist phrases, sounds morally good on paper and makes those who earnestly say things like that to seem like they're level-headed and fair-minded. The issue is that, like Marxist practices, all that flower talk is a mask for limiting potential and punishing success.
And Democrats have a long, proud history of punishing people for sticking their necks a little higher than everyone else.
Walz cited how people within the party believe successful people have opponents within the party as if it's just a section of it, but he also talks as if businesses that don't exploit their workers are something that isn't happening all the time, which implies that it happens enough to be something of a valid concern.
That, in itself, is a troubling view of the business economy in America from a person in a seat of power, but more worrisome is the ambiguity of the phrase "exploit their workers." What qualifies as "exploiting their workers?" Is there a definition of exploitation here?
He dives a little deeper, but what he says doesn't exactly expand on the question at hand:
Walz argued that the Democratic Party should embrace being the party of "pro-business."
"We're just simply talking about all businesses. What we don't want is monopolies. We don't want corruption. We don't want the folks that are preying on the communities that are bad actors, but we have this reputation that the business community is somewhat hands-off from us," he said.
"We don't want corruption," and "we don't want folks... preying on the communities that are bad actors" is, again, kind of nebulous sweet talk that expands on nothing despite all the hot air put into it.
That'd be like me saying, "I'm against bad guys who are bad and do bad things," which sounds great, but when you get into the nitty-gritty details of my actions against these bad people, you'll notice that the bad guys I'm talking about are abortionists, and suddenly you realize that what I consider to be "bad" is wholly different from what you believe.
The Democrat Party has, on many occasions, gone after or harmed business owners in many ways. They shut down businesses by force during the pandemic. They shrugged at business owners who had their stores burned and looted during Black Lives Matter riots. They raise taxes on them, regulate them, and open them up for criminal activity until they're forced to close up shop and leave the area Democrats control.
This has been going on for so long that once quiet highways in Texas are now flooded with California and New York plates.
Democrats are not pro-business. They're pro-Democrat Party, and that means that businesses are going to be the first to get the short end of the stick because the party is so hyper-focused on virtue-signaling in a Marxist direction. Marxism, by its nature, has to make the successful the mustache-twisting villain of society, and that means Mr. and Mrs. McEntire, who own the hardware store down the street, are subject to intense distrust and punishment because they fall into a bracket that the Democrat Party considers "wealthy."
The truth is, from the Democrat Party's perspective, there's a point for people in America where they go from being "just like folks" to "suspect of corruption and selfishness" simply because they made the right moves, diligently worked, and grew something from scratch, and that's not a good feeling. To be considered "wrong" in some capacity for simply working hard and bearing fruit for it is not okay or normal for any sane person.
Yet, that's the Democrats in a nutshell. That's the culture they created around themselves.
You can go on for days listing all the anti-business policies and moves they've done, but it all starts with that singular culture of looking down on business owners with suspicion, not pride.
If Walz doesn't understand that, then he doesn't understand the American way of the self-made man, and that in itself is enough reason to see Democrats as the opposite of pro-business.
