Today’s favorite government employee who hates government employees is none other than Wisconsin’s governor Scott Walker. If you are attempting to rob a state blind a political tool like Walker can be a most useful item to have. Walker is someone who’ll go the extra step for the powerful at the expense of his own people. He can be incredibly tough on his opponents, if they are weaker than he is, and at the same time he can hold himself absolutely supine to the first fake Koch brother to come along. He will consider discrediting protesters by any means, like planting fake trouble makers in the crowd, as he discussed when he thought he was talking to his benefactor. Walker is also willing to consider ways his benefactor might reward him like free trips to California, as no one would be a lackey for nothing? Early in the crisis Walker gave away the whole game on a prank phone call.
Walker has proved that he is adept at handing out enough tax give-aways to businesses to create a crisis that he will then solve them through drastic measures. Walker has also proven that he can stick to a story even when he appears to be the only person in the state who actually believes it - “we are getting rid of collective bargaining in the state to save the state money.” He thinks nothing of destroying a hundreds of years of collective gains made by thinking what can these people hope to teach one man born into middle class privilege. Walker has even stuck to his story – we’re doing this to save money - even when his opponents concede that they want more money and only want to preserve their right to collective bargaining. Walker just repeats the lie. When his actions prove they will be costly to the state money through the mounting legal fees – Walker again reiterates he is doing this to save the state money.
When Walker has been caught lying, which is often enough as he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, his impulse is to double down on his own lies. He envisions himself as the next Ronald Reagan taking on the air traffic controllers which he somehow equates to winning the cold war (see fake Koch brother conversation). Unfortunately, the country has changed since “Saint Ronny” strode the earth kicking the crap out of the working people. The main difference is Reagan did his act America still had a decent amount of jobs while Walker is doing so at a time where more and more Americans can envision a future where they’ll be asking “Would like fries with that?”
Eventually hundreds of Wisconsin’s citizens flowed to their state house and took it over. This was a disgrace as everyone knows that the people’s house really belongs to the Koch brothers and their political lackeys; and not to the people of Wisconsin. They tried to restrict the little people, their own citizens, from the state house with one more phony excuse. The state house needed to be cleaned though witnesses there said it wasn’t dirty. Policemen were used as palace guards to keep the people out. Arrests were made. A tractor rally was held to show that this was growing beyond just a movement of government workers and that more people in the state saw this as a threat. In desperation and in a ceremony that had all the dignity of a drive-by legislation, Walker and his Republican cronies signed a bill into law as quickly as possible and with as few people as they could get to witness it that seemed to violate Wisconsin’s open meeting laws. The law was initially blocked from going into effect, before it was eventually overturned by Wisconsin’s Republican controlled Supreme Court. Since that time Walker has begun to follow through on the Republican playbook he has helped his state’s education by defunding it. Walker has considered other ideas that he’s imported from Michigan to put more power into his hands alone. He appears to have charted a course to be the first Republican governor to sell his state off whole sale to private interests.
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