BUYERS REMORSE:LESSONS OF WISCONSIN

BUYERS REMORSE: THE LESSONS OF WISCONSIN

Democrats had better learn the lessons of Wisconsin before it is too late. Republicans have and are applying what they have learned every day to this presidential campaign.

First, Scott Walker, with national support and following a Karl Rove campaign approach, he lied to the Wisconsin voters. He did not reveal his faulted Ayn Rand ideology as to how he would govern if elected; everything for the rich and nothing for the workers. They simple do not matter. He was elected with money from outside the state.  He governed according to this ideology and not according to his campaign lies. The people who voted for him were outraged. Buyer’s remorse set in.

They collected million of signatures to force a recall election; that is expensive and is a lot of hard work. This recall election was a clarion call to battle for Walker’s supporters. They started to donate million of dollars anonymously; his allies were not the workers but the rich who hide behind the infamous and faulted Citizens United decision. They saturated the media with political ads with lies. Using the Rove principle that if you tell the same lies often enough people will believe them, they told the same lies so often that enough people believed them to prevent the Scott Walker recall. Interviews with people as the left voting booths clearly showed the lies had work. They did not vote their base values, they voted according to the “newly” instilled values”. People who depend on the unions for a fair wage and on public schools to educate their children voted against their own interest. What mattered was that Democrats were treating Scott Walker unfairly.

The buyer’s remorse was there but it did not matter anymore; there was no recourse AND THE PEOLE OF WISCONSIN ARE STUCK WITH HIM.

Spool ahead to the presidential campaign; Rove, again, is mastering a campaign of high dollars to perpetuate lies. The money he collected as a direct result of Citizens United. We know the Bush administration spend us into a debt crisis to create an atmosphere where fair-minded voters would agree to cut Social Security and Medicare, food stamps, etc. We know Republican deregulation policy destroyed our economy. We know that unregulated mortgage companies ruined the American housing market. We know the Republican Congress is trying to destroy the President. We know they want to feed the “military industrial complex, with another war. They want to close public schools and hand them over to churches and business. They want to create an Ayn Rand world where only the rich matter. You want to know what that would be like? Live in a third world country for 18 years as I have. If you buy the Republican lies and elect Romney, it will be equivalent to a George W. Bush recall election. Once Paul Ryan and his stand-in Romney are in the White House THE PEOLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARE STUCK WITH THEM—for ever.