Wisconsin Today: Fascism In Business Suits?

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Today was the 78th anniversary of the inception of the New Deal.I have this weird urge to re-read Jason Lutes' Berlin. Perhaps this is what it looks like , when it starts. When the Wisconsin GOP, out of panic, or maybe, impatience, openly violated their own Open Meetings Law and pushed through the union-breaking law, without debate, in an insane yelling match.The Wisconsin GOP seems to have decided, we're tired of pretending we respect the law , and we will hammer that square peg into the round hole till it breaks. We will get what we want and fuck you. They seem to think they've only been nice in abiding within the law, and viscerally moral human conduct as civil representatives. How then do they act when they're not pretending, ifhas been pretending till now?Do these little men really feel that emboldened to go? Then again, it's always themen you have to watch in such things.And Rachel: I said a few things last night on Twitter about you declaring Walker's opposition won last night. What did I say? That you should never declare victory UNTIL YOU'VE WON? Well.Is that a big iron toe I see testing the water? Does it feel like an itch traveling up the leg?What the GOP is doing in WI, MI, and so many other states is a legislative coup against the people of those states.Today's politics is like Lord of the Flies. Mother and Father are long gone, there is no adult and no one to decide punishment. And the side that likes to break things are the ones with the weapons and will to do it. All the fat kids have sticks.It cannot be possible that this is not illegal. But for some reason they no longer seem to think they should care. Imagine what Nixon could do now. Don't say he was liberal by comparison. He wasn't. These are his politics on top. Pure bully.And the GOP's opposition brings lemonade to nuke fights until they realize the world has fallen out under them. And still they expect the Republicans to not then kick their fingers. Or stomp.We're now living in. We're all done now, pretty soon. But it's been a long time since America was other than a trademark.What does it look like when the stuff people stopped talking about because it sounded crazy sneaks into truth?And where is Obama in all this? Where he was in Illinois, as anyone who lived there (me, for one) when he did knows: living in terror the Republicans will catch him on film standing for something.Apart simply from his tactical use in keeping the GOP out of the White House: At this point Obama "fan" would have to be the word, not "supporter." Because, what with his lack of action here, forget Libya, and his restart of Gitmo, if one still can love him, it's more like a teen has posters.

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