Money walks, money talks, money does it all! Half the Wisconsin electorate seems to LIKE being treated as zero-IQ doodyheads

Do Wisconsinites who plan to pull the lever to allow their Stalinist governorissimo to remain in office ever wondering what kind of return his billionaire supporters expect for their investment?

by Ken

I was going to write tonight about Nurse Jackie, but I'm going to save that for tomorrow. Although Howie has been keeping up the drumbeat on tomorrow's showdown in Wisconsin, and the multitude of races around the country where the same issues are in play (see, for example, his earlier posts today), I decided I had to have some further say about Wisconsin, specifically about the projected half or so of expected voters who plan to vote to keep Governorissimo Scott Walker on the job as the string-pulled puppet of all those out-of-state extreme-right-wing billionaires.

We keep seeing and hearing those cretin-quotes from "ordinary" Wisconsin voters, and some of whom may actually be ordinary Wisconsin voters, rather than the relatives and cronies of Republican Party hacks who usually play ordinary citizens in GOP morality-play-style propaganda. Oh, we're all for the governorissimo, they all say, he's working for us! He's restoring fiscal prudence to our state by kicking those union devils straight to hell with no possibility of parole, and it's all going to be milk and honey in Wisconsin from now on. Or at least as long as we keep voting for those wonderful guys the out-of-state far-right-wing billionaires who love us so much want us to vote for.

There are so many layers of ignorance and sheer delusion packed together here that one hardly knows where to start. In any case it doesn't matter, because those people have moronicized and propagandized to be pretty much impervious to reality. Give the Right-Wing Noise Machine credit for knowing how to push the buttons of people who truly want fiscal prudence but apparently have no idea that the people promising it to them wouldn't dream of giving it to them. The right-wing billionaires who have kept pouring those tens of millions of dollars into the state consider those people tools and stooges. What the billionaires are effectively doing is squatting above those actual ordinary citizens and taking the biggest, stinkiest dump they're capable of, which believe me is wildly big and stinky.

And the dumped-on citizens reply: "Please, sir, I want some more."

Of course the governorissimo has no interest in saving money -- just in keeping money from falling into the hands of ordinary working people, people who aren't plugged into the billionaires' closed money loop. The goal, always, is to continue tightening the chokehold on the reins of government the plutocrats already enjoy.

Even before the Supreme Court extremists' "fuck America" Citizens United decision, money was about the first through tenth thing talked about in almost every political contest in the land. Since Citizens United, money has become practically the only thing that's talked about.

Talked about by political junkies, that is. Because surely the people who are hoodwinked by the media buys made possible by all that in-flowing right-wing cash don't stop to think about the way they're being duped -- not by whom or why. In my more reflective moments, I wonder what all those pro-governorissimo Wisconsinites think about the mind-boggling (and campaign-boggling) war chest provided by plutocrats like the Koch brothers, assuming they're even aware of it. You can be sure the subject doesn't come up in the propaganda paid for by all that plutocratic fortune. Do they imagine that the Kochs et al. really have any interest in their state's financial health? Let alone the health and well-being of Wisconsinites?

Maybe they think it's just ideological kinship. People like the plutocrats are "conservatives," just like their governorissimo, and like themselves. But of course they aren't. The plutocrats are only interested in government that assists them in squeezing every last dollar they can out of the economies of Wisconsin and every other state. Yes, the Kochs have a "conservative" ideology, but that ideology is principally about creating the most favorable possible political climate for them to increase as dramatically as possible their already-obscene profits. David Koch is a business guy, a return-on-investment guy. And you can be sure he expects to see every dollar he invests in the governorissimo come back to him, maybe 10 or 20 times over, not just in Wisconsin but in every state that can be influenced by seeing the governorissimo's brand of class warfare certified "Grade A" American.

Speaking of lovable plutocratic pols: Ann Romney tells The Onion, "Sure, on TV, Mitt might seem like a shameless opportunist who stands for absolutely nothing, but at home he's actually just an ordinary guy with a decent sense of morality."

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