Only yesterday, I was lauding Wisconsinites for saving their state’s democracy by flipping control of the state Supreme Court from a RepubliKKKlan majority to a Democratic majority. I even suggested that Wisconinites, having demonstrated their ability to vote as if their lives depended on it, might make my blog irrelevant — why maintain a blog of America’s stupidity when voters do seem to care and do seem to have the capacity to learn. Oh, but what a difference a day makes, and shame on me for my brief moment of optimistic failing, for in the end, Americans are still f***ing morons, Democrats still exude weakness, and America’s democracy is still on a downward spiral. RepubliKKKlans will always find a way to outsmart Democrats (Wisconsin) or downright cheat voters out of their democracy (North Carolina) or both. The quote below reveals the cause of my 24-hour reversal.
From The Guardian, “Wisconsin Republicans won a supermajority in the state senate on Tuesday, giving them the necessary votes to impeach statewide officials, including the state’s Democratic governor and potentially state supreme court justices. Wisconsin Republicans now control 22 of the senate’s 33 seats after Dan Knodl, a Republican, narrowly defeated Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin in a special election to represent a district that includes Milwaukee’s northern suburbs. Republicans also control 64 of the state assembly’s 99 districts. The Wisconsin constitution authorizes the state assembly to impeach ‘all civil officers of this state for corrupt conduct in office, or for crimes and misdemeanor’ by a majority vote. A two-thirds majority is required in the senate for a conviction.”
So! Although RepubliKKKlans, no doubt, had hoped to keep the Wisconsin Supreme Court under RepubliKKKlan control, they clearly had a backup plan that dumbass Democrats completely missed, and that plan was to attain a supermajority in the state senate via a special election held on the same day in a conservative district. In so doing, they now have the ability to impeach and remove the governor and — wait for it, wait for it — the Supreme Court justice Wisconsinites just elected. Now, what are the chances that RepubliKKKlans will follow through with removing Protasiewicz? I’d say 100 percent, especially when abortion and redistricting cases come before the court. As with everything, RepubliKKKlans will invent a cause for impeachment and removal, so it doesn’t matter what she does or does not do. In fact, Kelly has already laid the groundwork with his defeat screed by suggesting Protasiewicz lied to voters to get elected, which she did not and is not illegal had people perceived she lied, but nonetheless, it will be enough cause for them to act against the will of the people.
Once again, RepubliKKKlans have gerrymandered and perverted the political system in Wisconsin (and nationwide) so that no matter how much winning Democrats achieve, RepubliKKKlans can undermine the will of the voter. Yet, this is the state of affairs that citizens have allowed to happen after decades of neglecting their civil obligation to vote — consistently and correctly (i.e., Democratic). Suddenly — not so suddenly in truth — RepubliKKKlans have amassed enough power at critical levels of local, state, and federal governments, and voters are starting to rebel against the policies they are enacting, but guess what? It’s too late, f***tards. Voters thought they could just begin voting en mass to undo their years of apathy. Foolishness! Did voters not consider RepubliKKKlans would have foreseen this eventual pushback from the electorate? Of course, they did not! This is why RepubliKKKlans have fixed the politics to make it impossible for the people to actually express their will and make changes. Oh, well! So, here I am back to where I started: Welcome to stupid America!