I’ve experienced something similar during my last few years in Minnesota. Adulation of Obama at Nork levels was required behavior, one could not buy nor sell without worshiping Obama at Comrade Kim levels.
I've been here a long time, and though you're exaggerating a little bit about the public displays of worship for Leftism, it isn't by much.
Minnesota has long been rotten with corruption because it is a one-party/uniparty state.