Big Bigger Bigotry

In a republic, one thing, history has taught a few of us, is that the executive branch must never gain power over the legislative branch - nor the capacity for harassment. In the United States, the sovereign power (the combined power of the people) is guaranteed by our Constitution to be held by a Republic, both at the National and State levels. A Republic, for everyone who never learned, is a government divided into three branches (though sometimes two, but it has to be watched like a hawk). At the County level here in the intellectually foggy city of Milwaukee we have two branches, the executive consisting of Scott Walker and the democratic consisting of the county supervisors. We do not have an aristocratic branch or senate as a balanced government does.

The purpose of dividing the government, outlining their roles and providing checks and balances to keep each from dominating the other is to prevent anyone from escaping the rules of civil society. In a pure monarchy or a pure democracy, the ruling body has absolute power with no possibility of a judicial authority above it, other than voluntarily, and then it's just pretend submission to gain more power.

An executive with power over the legislative branch is in effect a despot. The Lee Holloway issue is a pure unadultrated consequence of the failure of a binary republic. Holloway was democratically elected by the people of his district to represent them, not some distant suburb. His district contains a huge proportion of minorities, of a magnitude no one in the suburbs can conceive of, with issues the suburbs couldn't even understand. His voice as a County Supervisor is, perhaps one of the most important, since the city is the center of economic opportunity in the county. The fact that city customs and suburban customs differ is a fact of life. Unfortunately, this remains, somehow, invisible to the southern and western portions of the county. Failure to comprehend this cultural difference tends to turn weaker and more narrow minded individuals into bigots - individuals intolerant of behaviors that differ from their own, with Scott Walker being a prime example, despite any strengths he may demonstrate. We all fall into our own habits, its part of being human, about 80% of our behavior is habit, problems don't start as a result of our having habits, they start when we expect everyone else, no matter their circumstance, to have the same habits as ours.

What is truly a crime is that in a nation that forgot it is a republic and touts democracy (which is more accurately mediaocracy) in every media outlet, we suffer the maladies that afflict pure democracies, despite the constitutional form of our government. The flaw in pure democracy is called 'the tyranny of the majority', which John Adams was so keen to try and prevent when he oversaw the writing of the U.S. Constitution. As Adams put it:

"That the Majority will oppress the minority is proven on every page of the history of the whole world" -1788

In the absence of a functioning republic we will forever see the oppression of minorities, which is more accurately just another form of factionalism, which republics were invented to prevent. Yet- so-called 'Republicans' insist on sustaining the persecution of minority leaders. Lee Holloway being the most powerful and outspoken minority leader of the County Supervisors, who is in fact doing an exemplary job in the face of some of the most egregious and embarassing despotism Milfoggy has yet displayed. Real republicans as contrasted with these infiltraitor 'Republicans' would be bending over backwards to support Mr Holloway simply to ensure that all voices are heard and not just those that the despot arbitrarily wishes to hear.

Does it require a phD in psychology to figure out that the habits and customs, of a nearly permanent political minority, will differ from those of the majority? What better way for a despot to persecute the minority in the service of the majority than by the sophistry of an 'ethics board'? Was that artifice chosen by guile or out of simple ignorance? Are we not all familiar with the cushy isolationism of the suburbs, whose view on city folk is that we are simply failed attempts at being them? Anyone doing anything different than how they do things must be violating some sort of 'ethics'. Especially, since there can only be one set of 'ethical' customs. What happened to "Liberty and justice for ALL"?

Bigots. Grow an eye or two.