Lately I have been under a blinding dark cloud that makes me feel this rage and anger due to the political climate here in Wisconsin. My uneasy and negative thinking of how folks in general, Democrats and Republicans alike, hate each other so much - not only here at Dkos - but across the country is very unsettling and it makes me wonder what will become of my family. I do not hate. At least I didn`t. I am witnessing so many lies such as this one New policies saved taxpayers $1 billion, Walker says, that the hate mentality that blows like the wind in Wisconsin has deeply penetrated my own soul. I think that this political brinkmanship policy of pursuing this mental type of hate and anger on my part has led my life into a sad catastrophe in that I feel inner pain that combines with scorn and hate towards one man.
It was never my intention to become a Kossack to hate. Some here know me as an old man who likes to tell old stories. This is not a story. I write this diary to vent and to try to paint a word picture of myself as I was and thought when I decided to join DKos some years ago. I never considered, much less liked being a political writer when I joined this site. In my life I have seen so many ways politicians lie to voters that I wrote my first diary here with clear intention of showing my disdain for politicians of my day as I wrote. If Daily Kos had a prize for the stupidest diary writer based on my diary then, you would be looking at a winner today. I wrote of why I never voted in my entire life for anything or any politician prior to coming to this website where the political bug bit me and the swell from the bite grew into this discomfort I knew existed in politics. I have no way of knowing how you feel about today`s Scott Walker lies. I assume you too hate him. It should not be this way. But I am just one man, one vote. I am but an Old Hispanic man with many stories to tell. Please allow me to continue below the fold.
Today`s worth and weigh of the Latino vote is priceless in contrast to my old days in most political candidate`s circles, tongues and minds and as such I take it personal as they are scrambling to play nice to Latinos in this country. Simply because I know they lie and see no bilingual political candidate running for President of the United States I do see the usual suspects with their trademark lies that turned me off on politics at a very early age. The diary I featured with a link above that I wrote years ago tell of the lies barked at Latinos grounded on weaknesses and ignorance of those voters then. The same lies which I now can pin point directly at Republicans then and now is that they have continued in the same road targeting Latinos with shit like this. But instead of offering Latinos Beer and Tamales today, they offer "thinking" about immigration reform, so Hispanic families are not broken up by deportations.
Shit that Democrats used in the old days wherein I lived in Texas as a kid, minus the immigration rhetoric because there were no Illegals then.
Cen-Tro Advertising and Public Relations firm in Austin, told Smith that, "the only way to campaign and get the votes of Mexican-American precincts is to have rallies with Beer and Tamales"
Although this quote is from a Public Relations firm obviously working for Democratic
candidate Smith in 1968, the Democratic politician uses a different tune today, but nonetheless I see them all, Democrats and Republicans as liars that do their campaigns and talking points to serve their interests after being elected, and fuck the base afterwards..It always work this way in politics. Granted I am a Democrat and only because I was educated here at the site. To me, it all boils down to fear. Vote for a Democrat or die. I have also come to recognize and understand that Democrats have been in political battles with one hand tied behind their backs since Citizens United came out of the Supreme Court. For this reason among others, I stand with Democrats till death. All the money Scott Walker can get from his pimps will never get my love.
I am cognizant and recognize that we now live in a different era of politics where tents are no longer a campaigning candidate`s favorite rallying forums. In my days back under the tents there was still no television and very few had telephone so it is easier today to lie to voters. Just imaging Scott Walker on TV telling his base that his administration has just saved one Billion Dollars after he dropped his bomb on workers and got rid of Unions and shit.
Brown Deer - Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that his policies had saved Wisconsin taxpayers more than $1 billion so far - savings largely achieved by the Republican governor and lawmakers repealing most public workers' union bargaining and effectively lowering their compensation.
Much of those savings - more than three-quarters of a billion dollars - could be verified, such as state and local workers picking up more of the tab for their health care and pension. But the figures also included a significant amount of savings for local governments that could not be verified.
"It's not just about saving money and balancing the budget," Walker
I think that I am intelligent enough with the lessons on politics that I have learned here at Kos to assume that Tom Barrett is the one we must all be behind on this recall mess in the state of Wisconsin while the entire country laughs at what this state has become. I also know others here think different on a Candidate and I think it is because Tom Barrett was beating by Scott Walker once before. I think it is different today. Still, like I said, I am just one man, one vote and I cannot escape this tenseness of nerves as I now see our Democratic Candidates running against each other for a shot at Walker. I have noticed, to their advantage that they are not attacking each other during primaries but have concentrated their attacks on Scott Walker. That is good and it avoids the spectacle of turning their primaries into the comedy scenes of the Republican primaries.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the other leading Democratic opponent to Walker, said the governor's policies had led to nearly 1,500 teaching jobs being lost over the past year and the state still had a more than $140 million deficit.
"This isn't a record to brag about - it's a record that causes failed governors to be tossed from office," Barrett said in a statement.
There is an abundance of negative opinions to Scott Walkers rhetoric savings of
a Billion Dollars. We here at the site know that any savings have come on the backs of the poor and the working people and mostly obscene in scaling back and repealing women`s rights, shit, rights to anything and everything important to the women in this state of Wisconsin. I will be hoping that everything he has done will come back and bite his ass in June, if not before John Doe calls him.
Joseph Dean, an Ozaukee County Board supervisor, said, "I don't think anybody enjoys paying more, including those of us in the private sector. But I think they do appreciate full employment and not furloughs and not having layoffs."
Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin Extension, said there would have been pain from balancing the state budget however it was done. Walker's spending cuts, including the savings he laid out Monday, will lead to a loss of 21,800 jobs in the state, Deller has estimated.
If you are still waiting to read the part of this diary with my point, I guess I can say that the real gist is that I have lived long enough to know that Politics is but a mere license to steal. Steal from the taxpayer while protected by the laws enacted by the criminal politician (See: Scott Walker).
In addition, I joined Daily Kos after years of reading the many talented writers that inspired me to join. At first, like many have done I guess, I just lurked and read. I did want to write. But never politics. The bug, the fucking bug got me. I am pissed today because Scott Walker continues to lie that he will survive the recall to his ass. The money buys him talking points that say he is in the lead for re-election in June. Yet he continues to run negative Ads like a scared and cornered animal. That is my point. This is why I wrote today. My only regret of becoming a political wanna-be writer is that the bug that bit me was infected with hate and I caught it. That is painful. How can anyone hate another human being. Even if we think Scott Walker is not human, I just hate hating.
Even if this asshole saved a Trillion Dollars and pushed them up you know where, he
would never be loved by me.