Welcome to the 12th Century, you serfs! Now plow that land while the Lord of Billions exercises droit de seigneur on your daughters.

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. 

Even the Official Town Crier of the self-righteous right had some comments. Not to mention the ladies-in waiting to His Majesty, the Bain of Mitt, including Lady Peggy the Weepy, and Michelle the Nasty.

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 12^th Century Wizard Yogi Berra once said, it’s déjà vu all over again.

This is a photograph of Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin:

I’m kidding of course. But also I’m not kidding. Governor Walker’s high-handed, bullying and autocratic ways would have fit right in with the way “President” Hosni Mubarak ran Egypt as a private dictatorship, before crowds of angry citizens drove him out.

In case you’ve just flown in from Mars and missed the Wisconsin story, Walker says he’s trying to solve Wisconsin’s budget crisis – a crisis he and the Republican legislature manufactured by pushing through tax cuts that left Wisconsin with a budget shortfall. His "solution" is to deprive the state’s teachers and some of its civil servants of the right to bargain collectively.

The state’s workers are justifiably outraged. They’ve been gathering by the many tens of thousands in Madison, the state’s capital, to protest peacefully – a demonstration strongly resembling the demonstrations that brought down Mubarak.

Walker has been following Mubarak’s strategy. First he refused to budge. Then people in his party began offering too little, too late. What appeared to be a trial balloon was sent up by State Senator Dale Schultz. It called for unions to lose their collective bargaining rights, just the way Walker wants, but then to have them reinstated in two years. "I'm robbing you at gunpoint now, butI'll make it up to youy two years from now.” Yeah, right.

The teachers and civil service unions are crazy if they buy into any union-busting offer – and so far they haven't. Meanwhile, the state’s Democratic legislators are staying out of state so that the Republicans can’t gain a quorum and ram through a revision of elementary workers’ rights.

Let’s hope the unions have the gumption to keep on staying out there demonstrating until the state comes to a halt and the governor, like his look-alike Mubarak, has to resign and flee.

And let’s hope that just the way the movement that brought down Mubarak after it spread from Tunisia has now spread to Algeria and Libya, the movement to stop Republican autocracy will spread from state to state, bringing down one arrogant Republican governor after another.

Got nothing to do this weekend? If you’re in Wisconsin, join the peaceful demonstration and help bring Hosni-Mubarak-Walker to his knees.

Note on another subject: I am still mourning the Crank's Beautiful Girlfriend and will be posting only sporadically for the next few months.