Progressives Win Nationally, Wisconsin Dem Establishment Targets Reformist Gov Candidate

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — In Wisconsin the Democratic Party establishment has turned losing into an art form — knocking down progressive candidates, shooing away advice from voters and grassroots activists, pushing aside popular legislative initiatives, enacting with Republicans a prison state, and becoming a stagnant vehicle doling out patronage jobs for political parrots.

Last night, progressives proved again the folly of this approach to democratic elections and governance, (Slate), but it happened in New York and Maryland.

In New York, In These Times reports, a Bernie Sanders organizer, "28-year-old democratic socialist woman of color—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—just unseated one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, Joe Crowley, an incumbent who hadn’t faced a primary challenger since 2004 and was angling to become Speaker of the House, (Aronoff, In These Times).

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party establishment in Wisconsin is trying to rid the field of the strongest voice against the municipal police states in Madison and Milwaukee that in part keep young and minority voters from getting too excited about state politics.

In the Maryland primary, former NAACP president Ben Jealous won after running a campaign targeting mass incarceration and abusive police.

In Wisconsin, police can kill and beat people and the reaction from liberal mayors of Milwaukee and Madison is to publicly scold the victims, but not the cops. So, the police continue operations knowing there are no consequences to assaulting and killing people. If the reader thinks this is hyperbole, you do not know Wisconsin or are likely white.

Readers looking for a report on how Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary race, (voting has begun for Aug. 14 Primary election), is shaping up as a means of getting rid of the odious incumbent Evangelical Gov. Scott Walker (R) should be alarmed.

The leading liberal newspaper is dedicating its news columns to hit pieces fed by campaign opponents to suppress early Primary voters for the leading voice against the Wisconsin police-prison state, (warning: Better not to be black or brown in Wisconsin). Flynn will walk away with the nomination if the Democratic Party establishment does not stop him. And the Party is committed to police states.

Tony Evers, the State Schools Superintendent, is leading the field, garnering the support of neo-liberal corporatists that so repelled voters in 2016, we have the current lunatic in the White House.

Evers' campaign is an anodyne array of pablum, about what one might expect from a white school bureaucrat from east-central Wisconsin, (white, white and white), with no apparent appreciation for social justice and police misconduct.

Young and minority votes have to come out to defeat Scott Walker in the general election, and the conduct of Wisconsin's liberal establishment is shaping up to be a disaster in this respect.