VIEWPOINT | A snake in the garden

Guest column by Chris Larson

Are you a Normie? 

If you don’t know what that means, well then you probably are one. Normies (slang for “normal”) are people with “mainstream tastes,” have jobs, dutifully pay taxes, robotically eat the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) of highly-processed seed-oiled GMO’d “food” drenched in high fructose corn syrup, enjoys fads (Do you own a Stanley travel mug?), has no qualms about the state of our public schools, and doesn’t pay much attention to politics most of the time, certainly not local politics. 

Normies think Alex Jones is a kook, and Anthony Fauci is a well-meaning health expert. 

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Normies believe the both Covid and our current record-breaking inflation are naturally occurring events, similar to a bad winter, not the fault of evil and/or inept humans. 

Normies kinda feel like maybe the 2020 election wasn’t quite on the up and up, but they don’t think we have any of those problems here in South Dakota, the Mayberry of America. 

Normies keep their heads buried in the sand until WHOOPS! too late, the Marxists have totally captured every single institution in our country. Just ask the good “Nice” citizens in the state of Minnesota, who can have their child removed from their home by the government if the parent refuses to “affirm their gender.” Yes, Normie, this is the New Normal in America. Coming soon! 

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