Every state – in fact – every major city has activists and moral entrepreneurs and can lay claim to a pioneer of some movement or another.
Minnesota’s geography, history, politics, and culture have produced or catalyzed an outsized number of global moral movements. These movements in turn create a self-replicating in group of moral entrepreneurs and sympathetics, ripe for moral panic.
From Prohibition, Vatican II, Civil Rights Era NAACP, Pro Life, Roots, Marxist Feminism, Day Care Sex Hysteria, Sex Registries, Sex Harrassment, Anti-Porn, and the Duluth Model, to Backwards Records to the PMRC, when we make hysteria, we do it right.
Prohibition to George Floyd, there seems to be something in the water in Lake Wobegon. The list if moral entrepreneurs and their movements below is not exhaustive, but they account for a billion adherents in a human emotional network.
Minnesota is a good business climate for utopiate dealers, but the list below represents major players in major movements.
To give a sense of the density and impact of these moral movements here are 11 shown in one 25km (16 mile) bus route.
Andrew Volstead – Prohibition
After being lobbied by the Women’s Temperance League in Minnesota, Volstead passed the Volstead Act. He then left Congress and became the Chief of the National Prohibition Enforcement Bureau (Eventually the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, ATF).
He infringed on other people’s rights by passing unconstitutional laws, then made a job for himself enforcing the unconstitutional laws he created.
Lived: 1860-1947
Granite Falls, Minnesota
Education: St. Olaf
Known For: Prohibition / Founder: Alcohol Tobacco Firearms (ATF)
Wrote: Volstead Act
Quote: “I just kept in the middle of the road.”
Fr. Virgil Michel – American Liturgical Movement | Vatican II
Virgil Michel, a Benedictine monk of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, is best known as a leader of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Movement in the United States.
This was the collectivist social justice movement in the church that led to the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)
This is a change in the Catholic Church’s operating system.
Lived: 1890-1938
Collegeville, MN
Education: St. John’s University
Known For: American Liturgical Movement | Vatican II
Roy Wilkins – Till Press Release | Civil Rights Movement
Sociologist Roy Wilkins served as Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1955 to 1963 during which time he wrote the Emmett Till press release that catalyzed the Civil Rights Movement, attended each march at Selma , and co-organized and spoke at the 1964 March on Washington.
He served as Executive Director of the NAACP from 1964 to 1977.
Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul is named in his honor.
Lived: 1901 – 1981
MN City: St. Paul, Rondo Neighborhood
Education: University of Minnesota
Known For: Emmett Till Press Release | March on Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey – Affirmative Action
In between being Mayor of Minneapolis and Vice President of the United States, Hubert H. Humphrey has three accomplishments that qualify him for this list.
- He proposed Affirmative Action at the 1948 DNC.
- He was the Sen. Majority Whip during the Civil Rights Era
- He was first to propose the Peace Corps and Department of Education
After losing the 1960 Democratic Party Nomination to John F. Kennedy, Humphrey became Lyndon Johnson’s Vice President, sparking conspiracy theories. Like the Anti-Racists and Anti-Fascists of today, Humphrey was totally Anti-Communist.
Father Paul Marx – Pro Life Movement
Sociologist Dr. Paul Marx was often referred to as “the father of the international pro-life movement” and was called an “Apostle of Life” by Pope John Paul II (1991). Fr. Marx traveled over three million miles visiting all 50 states and 91 countries in his over 40 years of pro-life advocacy to defend the sanctity of human life.
He was the founder of Human Life International (www.HLI.org) and the Population Research Institute (www.pop.org)
Lived: 1920 – 2010
City: Collegeville, MN (Stearns County)
Known For: Pro Life Movement
Wrote: Death Merchants
Alex Haley – Roots
Alex Haley was paid to write Roots while an attending writer at Macalester College at the World Press Institute. I’m certain the World Press Institute deserves it’s own article given a list of other things it’s produced.
Roots went from manuscript to best selling book and miniseries in 18 months and has had global impact on perceptions of slavery.
Lived: 1921 – 1992
Born: Elsewhere
Lived: St. Paul, MN
Known For: Roots
Kate Millett – Marxist Feminism
One of the most influential 2nd Wave Feminists, Millett wrote Sexual Politics and introduced the ideas of Patriarchy Theory and Gender as a Social Construct.
Time Magazine said, Millett “Put the Marxism in the Women’s Movement”.
Following a free education at the University of Minnesota a wealthy aunt who had married into James J. Hill money paid for Kate Millett to attend Oxford and Columbia University.
Millett who suffered most of her life with Bipolar Disorder and Victimhood Complex wrote Sexual Politics in 1970 with the aim of creating A Cultural Revolution like that in China.
Her brother in law at the time was the President of 3M Asia.
Lived: 1934 – 2017
Born: St. Paul, MN
Education: University of MN, Oxford, Columbia University
Known For: Attempting to Destroy Western Civilization
Wrote: Sexual Politics; Loony Bin Trip, Mother Millett, The Basement
Catherine Mackinnon – Sexual Harrassment | Anti Porn Bill
Another of the most influential 2nd Wave Feminists, MacKinnon focuses on women’s rights and sexual abuse and exploitation, including sexual harassment, rape, prostitution, rape, sex trafficking, rape, pornography and rape. She, along with Andrea Dworkin who was a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota became the first to argue that pornography is a civil rights violation, thus passing the Dworkin/Mackinnon Anti Civil Rights Pornography Bill.
She is the daughter of Congressman, US Atty and US Circuit Judge George Mackinnon described as “so far right he makes Goldwater look like George McGovern”.
Catherine Mackinnon was also the first to successfully argue that sexual harassment in education and employment legally constitutes sex discrimination.
In the 1980’s she and Andrea Dworkin with the help of a Mpls Women’s group passed the Dworkin Mackinnon group which spread through the Anglosphere before being struck down as unconstitutional in Canada.
From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Lived: 1946 –
Born: Minneapolis
Education: Smith; Yale
Known For: Sexual Harrassment, Anti Pornography, Being Oppressed
Wrote: Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979); Feminism Unmodified (1987), described as “one of the most widely cited books on law in the English language”;Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989); Only Words (1993); a casebook, Sex Equality (2001 and 2007); Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws (2005); and Butterfly Politics (2017).
Ellen Pence – The Duluth Model
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pence graduated from St. Scholastica in Duluth with a B.A. in arts.
She was active in Marxist institutional change work for battered women since 1975, and helped found the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in 1980 and Praxis International.
She is credited with creating the Duluth Model of Abuse in 1980 and created domestic violence cases, Coordinated Community Response which uses an interagency collaborative approach involving police, probation, courts and human services in response to domestic abuse.
This has become part of Praxis International’s “Blueprint for Public Safety” which was first adopted by St. Paul, MN and has since spread throughout the Anglosphere.
None of this was based on counseling, statistical data or considered Women’s mental health or drug issues, cultural norms or therapy. Pence was a graphic designer who developed the Duluth Power and Control Wheel based on the lived experience of Women and the theories of Marxist Feminism.
This is the mostly widely adopted, genocidal, Marxist bull shit, currently operating in all 50 US States and 17 Countries.
The number of lives destroyed by Pence’s sadism has been estimated between the hundreds of thousands to millions worldwide.
Lived: (1948 – 2012)
MN City: Duluth
Education: St. Scholastica in Duluth with a B.A. in Arts, University of Toronto
Known For: Duluth Model
Kathleen Morris – Daycare Sex Hysteria
Started the Day Care Sex Hysteria Moral Panic in Jordan, Minnesota in 1983. Morris, a feminist prosecutor found out about one actual pedophile at the Valley Green Trailer Park, which blew into a national case when she imagined a pedophilia ring.
Trash collector, James Rud had two prior child sex convictions and was a repeat sex offender who baby sat in exchange for access to children.
Kathleen Morris at the time attracted attention as a Woman Prosecutor and because of her furious advocacy for crime victims, especially child victims of sexual abuse. As a result, she was thought to be a rising political star who would run for Minnesota Attorney General.
Morris offered Rud a lighter sentence in exchange for testimony against the rest of the town; she also incentivized children to tell her and the police whatever she wanted to hear.
The scandal exploded worldwide with over a 100 copycat cases in the Anglosphere.
She was eventually reprimanded for prosecutorial misconduct but received no punishment for destroying countless lives and families worldwide.
MN City: Jordan, MN
Known For: Day Care Sex Hysteria
Peters Brothers – Backwards Records
If you know what an LP record is and remember Satanic Messages being played on them backwards, that’s also from MN. The Peters Brothers — Steve, Dan, and Jim Peters — were ministers who spent the eighties traveling the country to preach against rock music.
MN City: North St. Paul
Patty Wetterling
Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped and killed in Stearns County. The investigation was botched, the media sensational and the result disastrous. The Wetterling Act became the first national sex offender registry an idea that spread throughout the Anglosphere.
Lived: Stearns County
Known For: Wetterling Act, Wetterling Foundation
Failed Attempts | Dishonorable Mentions
Mary Brunner, Eau Claire, WI, outside of Stillwater, MN was the first member of the Manson Family.
Sara Jane Olson born Kathleen Ann Soliah was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) who kidnapped Patty Hearst, robbed banks and put pipe bombs in squad cars.
Deray McKesson was the Diversity Inclusion Equity coordinator at Mpls Public Schools before driving to Ferguson to bring racial harmony to the nation via Black Lives Matter.
Honorable Mentions
Bob Dylan invented cancel culture by playing an electric set at the Newport Folk Festival. He played at the March on Washington, his girlfriend, Joan Baez, played at the March on Washington and Peter, Paul and Mary, played their biggest hit at the March on Washington, a Bob Dylan song.
Prince was the top target of Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) He topped their “Filthy Fifteen” with his song Darling Nikki which suggested Women masturbate.
He also wrote several other songs on their list.
Jawed Karim Went to Central High School, in St. Paul, MN, worked at Paypal and was the technical cofounder of Youtube. He and classmate Yakov Lapitski, released the first Youtube video “Me at the Zoo”.
Youtube has been the carrier and delivery mechanism for more hysteria than anything else in history, followed by Facebook Live.
Jawed Karim wisely got out of the spotlight, as I would expect any smart, Central graduate to do. He has been a long time supporter of Elephant rights.
Yes, I’m ending on a joke.
