Time flies, as Scott Walker leaves corruption, scandal and lies as a legacy. Seems like only yesterday, Scott Walker campaigned with felons, Tim Russell and Brian Pierick, two aides who embezzled from military veterans. Walker leaves Wisconsin, living on the same pensions and healthcare that the great charlatan campaigned against. |
It will take Wisconsin years to recover from (and discover) the full extent of systemic damage to every corner of government that Walker tried to engineer for his donors against the people during Wisconsin's lost decade of corruption and malice.
But make no mistake, Scott Walker failed in his mission to destroy democracy in Wisconsin, and the voters, flush off a major voting rights victory gave Walker the boot.
No surprise, Walker exits Wisconsin with a new and outrageous attack on voting rights, in defiance of the authority of the federal courts.
Incidentally, incoming Gov Tony Evers (D) is not the man for the job. Evers is already making vague threats against black and brown residents that the criminal code will be expanded, to be wielded by local agents of white supremacy — Republican-dominated municipal police.
Notwithstanding the moribund quality of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, (which can be every bit as obtuse, racist and provincial as the GOP), Wisconsin remains intact.
Wisconsin's world-class University System survived Scott Walker, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison remains the vibrant oasis of empirical investigation, liberal education, radical activism and pioneering discovery that each year draws 1,000s the world-over to help launch new lives.
As rural parts of the state grow even whiter and older, and young families look for new regions in which to set down roots, an energetic 45-plus percent of small-town Wisconsin remains, engaged in a rights-based, innovative politics for the future, of which clean and safe water necessary for life remains at the top of the agenda.
With Dane County again leading the state in private-sector, high-wage jobs that make Madison, for example, an illustration of everything Scott Walker is not — independent, educated, innovative, rights-based and progressive — Wisconsin will recover from Walker.
Blind allegiance to the Democratic Party is not the answer.
Demand from representative government what you believe as public policy; it's a classical liberal thing.
"True freedom and prosperity do not come from the clumsy hand of the government," says Scott Walker in a New Year's email.
Why then did Scott Walker give Wisconsin government to donors and corporate America, while preaching the value of private industry? Scott Walker is a liar with a psychology and character untroubled by hypocrisy and deceit.
Looking to 2020, Wisconsin remains a beacon, with a world-class University and millions of citizens who defeated a child who would destroy what took generations to create.
Scott Walker lost, and Wisconsin is flush with renewed hope, dreams and commitment for the future.
I don’t see making the drunk driver law tougher as anti black. For Christ sake - the vast majority of drunks driving in this state are whites. Time to crack down.
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