lizardsfromspace:

Saw someone actually lay out how messed up the situation is in Wisconsin to relatively little notice on another site & I didn’t know that situation was like. That unknown. But

• Wisconsin is no longer democratic & is a test case for right-wing rule’s endgame
• Not democratic in a political party sense. Not democratic in a “it is no longer a democracy in most senses” sense
• It went for Biden in 2020 (& blue every recent Presidential election bar 2016) and Democrats won every state office in 2018…
• …but it’s impossible for them to have a majority in the legislature. Even the 50/50 split implied by election results is impossible
• After a Democrat won in 2018 they stripped the Governor of all his power. All he can do is veto bills & call special sessions…
• …which end in seconds bc the right just immediately gavels them closed. Sessions on gun violence & abortion ended instantly, with no debate, and thus nothing but far-right laws can even go up for a vote
• Not only do they not confirm his appointees but they won a court case saying anyone appointed by a past Governor can stay in after their term if no one new is confirmed
• Since the right won’t confirm anyone new, people appointed by Scott Walker effectively have their offices permanently, four years later

People going “just vote!” feels so weird bc, yeah, in this case voting is vital, we need a Democratic governor to veto bills, but also you can literally “just vote” & nothing else. Changing the system or even the smallest positive advance is impossible. The best result is upholding the status quo & delaying the right’s full takeover of the few offices they don’t control by another four years, something you can’t count on being able to do bc they’ve spent the past two years testing the waters of letting the legislature just overrule election results completely

Anyway this is the future, today! and we live in hell