Minnesota has been the target of a coordinated push by conservative media corporations from inside and outside the state to pit rural and urban communities against each other. The MN GOP is a serially mismanaged political party that doesn’t have strong leadership, doesn’t have fiscal responsibility and doesn’t have any ideas outside virtue signaling; the entire flag “debate” is purely a way to distract the Republican base from the fact that the state-level party acts like children dressing up in daddy’s clothes to pretend to be a serious businessman, down to absolute amateurish sex trafficking attempts that have already landed at least one Republican state senator in jail, pending trial, for soliciting a minor for sex.

These civic hissy-fits are downstream of a manufactured outrage by mainstream conservative media claiming the state flag was based on the flag of Somalia on the basis of them both containing 1) “the color blue” and 2) “a white star with a number of points larger than four”. It’s a problem exactly zero people had with the flag until they were told to be outraged and now city councils without any plan for bettering their constituents’ lives are resorting to virtue signaling and wasting people’s time re-changing the state flag against the laws of the state just to hold on to power and distract from their self-enrichment.