So the Wisconsin recall election that was meant to put
union-busting Governor Scott Walker out to pasture has failed, and everyone has
something to say about it —
here and
here, for example.
In light of the big right wing celebration of Wisconsin’s
return down the slippery slope to Medieval times, with a rope attaching it to all
the rest of us, it’s time one of us medieval trolls came out from under a stone
bridge and spake what no one else dare sayeth.
Okay, I’ll step up to the plate…er, gibbet.
Voters of Wisconsin, you have just shafted not only
yourselves, but also every working man and woman in America. You have plunged a
dagger into the heart of America’s future.
The Walker campaign, funded with $30 million plus, managed
to turn your heads away from the issue at hand: that the governor was trying to
destroy unions that had built the middle class, raised this nation out of
serf-like working conditions, and provided both safe workplaces, and a future
and a retirement for the little guy.
Remember, the Right Wings spent $30 million. These are guys
who go ballistic when you talk to them about raising their taxes ten cents. So
why do you think they’d shell out $30 million? Simple. They’re going to get
something for it. And what they’re going to get is not only your labor for next
to nothing, but also your body. How do I mean this?
They’re opposed to regulation of business, ostensibly to
assist growth and create jobs. That claim of theirs, to call it what it is, is
pure bullshit. What they want is to avoid the expense and liability of keeping
workplaces safe.
They want to be able to poison your water with coal slag and
shale gasses without fear of punishment. You’ll die of cancer while they sip
Perrier.
They want to be able to avoid spending money on expensive
safety equipment or shelling out to workers who get injured or killed as a
consequence.
They want to be able to cut your salary and benefits and Social Security income and medical insurance just because they
feel like it. And believe me, they’ll always feel like it.
And you won’t be able to say anything about it, because you
won’t have a union to back you up, or another job to go to. Tell them to “take
this job and shove it?” Fat chance when you can’t get another job, unemployment
insurance has disappeared, and you’re on a list of troublemaking knaves.
Instead, they’ll foreclose on your house.
Once they foreclose on your house, they’ll rent it back to
you at crippling rates. And you’ll have no choice in the matter because if you
complain, they’ll evict you.
Your children? You’ll have plenty of them. No birth control
and no abortion means you’ll have so many mouths to feed you won’t dare challenge
the billionaire nobility. And meanwhile, you’ll be producing plenty of cheap
laborers and military cannon fodder for them.
No regulation means they have a right to do any of this. No
union means no protection.
In the end, they’ll own your house. They’ll own your job.
They’ll own your future. And they’ll own you, too. Got that, Serf?
Did I mention your wife and your daughters? Don’t even
bother trying to lock them up. The rich nobility will simply break down the
doors. And you’ll have nowhere to complain, because you’ll be just a serf.
Twelveth Century stuff? You betcha. That’s what they want,
and thanks to the voters of Wisconsin, that’s what the Koch and Romney billionaires are much further on
their way to getting. As the 12th Century Wizard Yogi Berra once said,
it’s déjà vu all over again.