Democracy be damned.

With the Republican party having lost Governor, Attorney General, and other state-wide offices, the losers are now pushing an anti-democratic, lame-duck power grab. Nothing subtle about it. Very Stalinesque. Because of extreme gerrymandering, vast sums of Koch money, Fox news and talk radio support, the Repubs still control the Wisconsin legislature. They are addicted to power, and a continuous supply of puppet-master money, and they are now ready and willing to turn Wisconsin into a totalitarian oligarchy. Who cares what the voters want?

“Of, by, and for the people,” said President Lincoln. Screw that, say Vos and Fitzgerald.

I wonder if Gerry and Mander, and all the other rural Wisconsin rednecks, are going to like living in a totalitarian oligarchy. Maybe. There will be no need to vote. Also no need to think. The benevolent overlords will do that for them and then tell them what to put on their yard signs.

Way out in right field it's all about hierarchy, patriarchy, and privilege, slinging guns and thumping bibles. And if the Repubs can keep them folks resentful and scared it might be time to move to Moscow.