Every election we lose is not because of fraud!

[Warpy]

5. We need to worry about both, actually

I refused to make cash bets on yesterday's election, but I strongly suspected most Wisconsonites disapproved of the recall process, itself, whether or not they had any use for Walker, and that is likely why the recall failed.

It's too bad, but remember a couple of things: first, it cost a bunch of smarmy plutocrats a huge amount of money; second, Walker might not finish his term because too many prosecutors are hot on his trail.

Citizens United is one of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court. It will eventually be overturned, either when the wingers have the decency to go face their maker and are replaced by sensible justices or when a constitutional amendment is passed and ratified. In the short term, which might be anything from months to decades, we will be treated to corporate vomit in all the media during every election season.

The mechanisms that put W into office against the will of the people are largely still in place and voter suppression is being added to them. Again, we're going to have to look to the courts to get a lot of this stuff overturned and voters restored to the roles.

Conservatives want nothing more or less than the restoration of a monarchy. Even the ones at the bottom would love the certainty of an aristocratic system that relieves them of the self blame for being relative failures financially and all want the perceived order than oppression seems to accomplish. This is who they are: rigid follow the leader types who demand a leader and resent anyone who suggests they do their own thinking.

Only when they become convinced that the aristocracy itself is threatening order rather than preserving it do they wake up and rebel.

This is what we're fighting and this is also why Walker lost.