Re: End of the newsgroup

David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <j55h62$6uu$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Erilar <drache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To think the Progressive movement
was born here and now we have a dictator trying to impose his skewed view
of "reality" on us !

Mary, it looks like I'm missing something in your line of thought: are
you saying that 'progressive' is something unquestionably good for
everybody?

It was a people's party on the liberal side and was called Progressive
Party. See Lafollette, Robert.


I'm not sure that answers his question, unless you are taking it for
granted that "liberal" policies, in the 20th century American sense
(i.e. nearly the opposite of the 19th c. British sense) are
unquestionably good for everybody.

No, but it's a sea change for this state.

I'm also not sure, without knowing much about current Wisconsin
politics, in what sense the current governor is more of a dictator than
his predecessors.
Previously we had governors who at least made a more believable attempt(and
some did) to do more or less what they claimed before the election they
would do.

. Do you only mean that he is doing things you
disapprove of?
He was elected with a set of promises to do several impossible things and
turned around and began doing diametrically opposite ones he had never
mentioned publicly. That's why the Democratic senators walked out to
prevent a quorum and thousands of people gathered in the capitol to
protest.

I gather there were some recent recall elections for
judges, and that the Republican judges won enough of them to keep their
majority.

one judge

We did manage to replace a couple of the state senators, at least.

Is there a sense in which the current governor is imposing his view of
reality on you, and earlier governors were not imposing their view of
reality on those who disagreed with it? Or is your point only that his
view of reality differs from yours?
It differs from what he professed in public before the election.


--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad
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