Sticking a flag pin
on your lapel doesn’t make you a patriot. It’s what lies beneath in your heart
that matters. And with Friday’s appeals court ruling imposing the GOPster’s voter
suppression scheme on the Badgered state, the scary war on representative
democracy that lies at the heart of the Republicon Party is laid bare. But
lying, manipulating, gerrymandering, voter suppression and Blitz Gezetz
(lightning law) are the means this minority party needs to obtain its ends. I
say minority because that is who they now represent, a very small but increasingly
wealthy and powerful minority. The Republicon Party has abandoned their belief in
representative democracy and local control. They believe only in wealth and
power and the related heresies, that money is speech and corporations are
people and should write our laws. If the Boston tea party happened today the
Republicons would side with the East India Company.
When Robin Vos
gerrymandered Wisconsin, he drew the 21st Senate district just for Van
Wanggaard, with the district line running right down the side of his block,
thus choosing Wanggaard’s voters for him, instead of the other way around. Vanny
must be a very special boy to deserve such treatment. Scott Walker used blitz
gezetz by the surprise introduction of Act 10 on a Friday afternoon, when all
eyes were turned toward the weekend, with the plan to ram it through the
inconvenient formality of public hearings and get it passed the following
Thursday, before the citizenry would have a chance to consider it and react.
But their attack on
voting rights is an extra special betrayal of our Republic. Armed with laws
written in secret, by global corporations at the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC) Republicons all across the country, including those in the
Badgered state have moved to advance their hidden agenda, because everything
the Cons do has a hidden agenda, EVERYTHING! Their voter suppression agenda is based
on a wild conspiracy theory about massive voter fraud, committed on a perennial
basis by busloads of brown people. The mechanics of this conspiracy are so
ridiculously improbable that you'd have to be completely divorced from critical
thinking to swallow it. Just how foolish does one need to be? Let's examine. If
one believes that:
Every election year brown people coordinate getting the
forged documents needed to register at the polls and travel all over your state
committing multiple counts of voter impersonation fraud for democrats and never
get caught, infiltrated or have someone spill the beans, one might be foolish
enough to vote in Republicons (FEVIR).
Fraudsters never run into poll workers who know they don't
live at the addresses they’re attempting to use or who know the real voter in
whose name they're attempting to vote, never try to
vote under the name of someone who has already voted or that the real voter
never shows up later to find that someone has already voted in their name,
one might be FEVIRish.
Brown people who are transported to the polls in
vans must not be legitimate voters. And people who traditionally vote at rates
lower than the general population would be motivated to risk a felony
conviction with no chance of direct personal gain to get a job for someone they
don't know personally and with no way of knowing if their effort is even needed
to win or if it will be enough to be successful, one might be FEVIRish.
The few people who vote while on probation or
parole would be identified and stopped by voter ID, one might be FEVIRish.
DMVs across your state have convenient hours and
locations with available public transportation and that getting to the DMV to
get a photo ID is easily done by the working poor or elderly without a car, one
might be FEVIRish.
Everyone
lives like you do and has or needs a driver’s license or photo ID and one is so
special that it might be one’s personal vote, out of millions, that might be
cancelled and that justifies putting road blocks in front of over 300,000 of
our fellow citizen’s right to cast their vote, one might be FEVIRish!
The Republicon Party wouldn't trumpet the news
all over the media if in fact they were ever able to catch the supposed
perpetrators and expose this massive scheme and the reason they have never
offered a reward for the exposure of voter impersonation fraud conspiracies is
because they just don't have the money, one might be FEVIRish.
Photo ID is about election integrity and not
voter suppression, the Republicon Party leadership actually believes in freedom and the
wild conspiracy theory that they're foisting on us, one is definitely FEVIRish.
Interfering with the right of citizens to
legitimately cast their vote isn't just down right Un-American, one is in a complete
stupor!
