Back in 2002, I remember an anti-Jim Doyle slogan floating around that went something like: if you elect a crook you get a crook. Now that a Federal Indictment has blood in the water, the inner circles of both parties are focused on each other, sharpening their rhetoric and talking amongst themselves.
There's No Eye in Team: Reasons abound why Wisconsin has gone blind to political corruption. Among them is the pathology evident in the major political parties. Belonging to a political party used to be like joining a club. Now it's more like getting caught up in a cult.I suspect there is plenty of Error and Impropriety in State Government. An Ed Thompson for Governor Sticker is still pasted on my passenger side visor. I wasn’t one of the 185,455 Wisconsin voters that voted for him in 2002, but I was willing to listen to a third party message.
The leaders of the major political parties who populate Wisconsin's state Legislature and our nation's Congress are not remotely representative of the people. These bosses are obsessed with who's right and who's left. If they’d spend half as much time thinking about what's right and wrong, we wouldn't be in the midst of political corruption scandals of historic proportions.
Just as likely, we're approaching one of those historic turning points that calls for the creation of something brand new and tests our capacity for democratic renewal.
