Wednesday, June 6, 2012

F**K Scott Walker

Scott Walker defeated the movement to recall him.
Scott Walker is scum.
If you are not into Wisconsin politics, SW is the Governor of The Great State of Wisconsin. He got into office and began to destroy unions and workers' rights, which he conveniently never identified as a plank in his campaign to get elected.
The blow back was loud and immediate - one million signatures were collected to force a recall election which could have and should have resulted in him being booted out of office.
The fact that he held on to his job is an ominous indicator for politics in America as it now exists.
He raised 8 times the campaign funds that his Democratic opponent did. The vast majority came from out of state, from people who do not live in and cannot vote in Wisconsin. Big money people, big money corporations.
People who do not give a shit about Wisconsin politics but do give a shit about advancing the republican national agenda.
Anti-workers, anti-gay, anti-women, anti- black, anti-environment.
Pro rich, pro corporations.
He raised in the neighborhood of $30 million dollars, which is way out of proportion to what would normally be raised in a campaign of that nature.
Of course the Supreme Court opened the door for this climate by ruling that the government cannot ban political spending by major corporations in candidate elections and that they can contribute anonymously. The high court was partisan and unwise in this decision and has destroyed our political process.
Big money is skewed republican because republicans serve their interests. This is not to say that President Obama is not the beneficiary of big money; of course he is. You cannot compete at that level without it. But the vast majority of donations by the rich flow to republicans.
This skews results and perverts our political process.
Scott Walker bought his victory. The money paid for ads filled with lies and distortions, which is how republicans work. They misrepresent and inflame and sit back to watch the results.
Undecided voters are inundated with ads regarding emotional issues, and because they are afraid for their own financial security and uninformed about the truth, the real issues, they become convinced that Scott Walker is a good guy.
Robo calls went out to voters telling them that if they signed the recall petition, they didn't have to get out and vote.
The origin of those messages should be traced and the perpetrators should be jailed. Period.
SW has been given free reign now and he will use it to continue to rape Wisconsin. If you want a vision of what your life will be like if Romney wins, keep your eye on Wisconsin over the next few months. See how many every day workers lose their rights, lose their jobs, lose their homes, have their pay cut.
This is the darkest of times for politics in America. Elections are bought and paid for. We do not have a democratic process any more; we have capitalist politics. And big money will always win.
My stomach is churning this morning as I think about November. Walkers victory has rubber stamped the republican approach and we will see this happening all across America.
Big money financing misleading, often untruthful ads, backing immoral and amoral republican candidates, smearing President Obama with thinly veiled racially emotional slurs.
President Obama is cerebral, he is above politics because he doesn't enjoy rolling around in slime.
As a result he never fully explained his health care program to Americans and it is under attack from the very same Supreme Court that authorized grotesque campaign finance.
President Obama has not trumpeted his victories as President loud enough because it is not in his nature.
He has to begin to do this immediately. People do not know what he has done, they don't understand what he has accomplished, against all odds. Somebody has to tell them.
Because the next five months will witness a smear campaign like none this country has ever seen before. And that's saying a lot, because politics in this country has always been indecent and dirty.
After last night, my gut tells me that the fight is over. Big money always wins and there will be more of it flying around during the presidential campaign than raindrops in the sky.
I have consistently said that President Obama's election was a fluke. Maybe fueled in part by white guilt on the part of my generation. This country is not smart enough to elect an intelligent, black president.
People are more afraid now than ever. Insecure jobs, no road to retirement, homes being devalued. These issues hit home; they are about survival.
Voters are vulnerable. Vulnerable to a sustained attack on the President based on lies.
I am praying for one more fluke.
If Spineless Romney gets elected, much like the Cisco Kid in Blazing Saddles, I will crawl into a whiskey bottle and never come out.
Because I will not have a job, I will not have a retirement, I will not have a home, I will not have a life.
F**K Scott Walker and the amoral cretins who financed his victory and the national republican agenda.

1 comment:

  1. I must make a correction..it was the Waco Kid...but with that being said..at this years Republican convention Mitt will stand up before the lemmings and do his Hedley Lamarr impersonation..."Now go do the voodoo, you do, so well".

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