I want to tell people how this came to be, because understanding that is IMPORTANT.
In 2023, the DFL (the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party - nationally they just get Ds next to their name, but technically the three parties united in the 40s and that's the blue party here (also, yes, that means that friggin Amy Klobuchar is a member of a Labor party)) took over Minnesota's government. The Governor was DFL, and the DFL had the majority in both the state house and state senate (and I think one of those was by one member). And they ran with it.
In addition to passing the law that made this family leave possible, they also passed laws for clean energy mandates, free breakfast and lunch for ALL school children, protection for abortion access, protection for gender therapy access, banning conversion therapy, gun safety laws, tenant protections, free college for low income families, legalizing pot (which was a BFD given that they only legalized purchasing alcohol on Sundays six years prior), and a bunch of other stuff.
But the only reason they could get this done is because they had control of the government - Republicans did not have the numbers to stop them. And if we want to see anything like this implemented on a federal level, then we need Democrats to control the government there too. The reason we cannot have these things as a country is because the people who do not want them vote in every election, and the people who say they do find reasons to stay home.
If you live in the US and are eligible to vote, I am begging you to do so at every opportunity. You can have all the nice things we have in Minnesota! You just need to vote for the people who want to give them to you and convince enough other people to do the same.
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