I keep reviewing the Walker/Barrett fiasco of last evening's
Wisconsin recall and Barrett loss. What went wrong? I keep telling
myself not to worry as ultimately the country will see that Republican
politics is not about most of them and almost always means things like
Great Recession economic downturns. I keep saying to myself the status
Republican quo will not stand and like 2008, the majority of the country
feeling the sting of Republican politics and its attendant side cars of
lies and fraud will put the Republican Party in electoral bankruptcy
where it truly belongs. When Republicans rule they miserably fail
because their philosophic base thinking Republicans are for them find
out they surely are not and drown in Republican decision-making which
puts billions in the hands of the very few but which cares nothing for
most of the others who put them in office. Often, it takes Democrats to
rescue the nation.
I begin to feel positive again
until I remember the gargantuan money machine that the Republican
Supreme Court majority put into play. Could one obscure decision, Citizen's United,
have had such deleterious affects? The answer is a resounding yes. It
is that coupled with an electorate which, in many cases does not
understand things political, does not know the difference between the
political left and the political right, forgets history longer than one
week and will succumb to the Republican Party's paid-for-in-cash immoral
propaganda which makes a few very very rich but certainly does nothing
for the rest of the country which is not. Quoting another blogger who
says:
Obviously, the politics of this country is moving towards the extremist ideology where some people would rather continue to defund social rights programs that it took years to create and establish while allowing the rich to not do their part. Politics is one thing, but where this country is headed seems clearly in the hands of misguided voters who believe in 30 second political sound bites that ultimately, don't have their best interests at heart. The voters in Wisconsin will reap what they sowed and so will this country if its voters continue this walk down into madness thinking it [Republican politics] will fix our ills. This event helps to validate my view that when I retire, this is not the place to be as people here have become more divided, selfish, corrupt, and greed stricken while we still debate the merits of viable health care and give tax breaks to the rich and corporate welfare to the war machine and certain big businesses. Although born and raised here, I love this country but not what it has become, especially the priorities of its people and definitely not exactly my ideal place to consider retirement.
Whenever I contemplate remedial policy for Republican toxicity I am stopped by a synapse that echoes Citizen United.
Unless or until that rancid and destructive decision is either
overturned OR, in the interim, the Democratic Party finds a way to
compete with gargantuan big corporate oligarchic money running through the life blood of this nation and ultimately costing lives from its disease then truly there is, existentially, no way out.
The
investigation of Scott Walker and that of his cronies’ nefarious
possibly criminal activity should continue. In the interim the
Democratic Party MUST find a way to compete with the opposition's
money-smothering bought elections so that the existential perp walk path
this country is on can be transferred to the very selfish, mean,
Republican conservative base where it belongs.
