Kickass and Wisconsin Dumbness by Bill Stokes

By Bill Stokes

Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that as global “dumbing” grows apace, Wisconsin more than holds its own; but a brief inventory of the results of Wisconsin’s unique dumbness might be useful in the interest of state pride. The following is a very incomplete list of what dumbness has done for Wisconsin:

1. Elected Sen. Ron Johnson, certifiably among the Senate’s dumbest.

2. Put in place a minority-representative state legislature.

3. Encouraged the politicization of the state supreme court.

4. Allowed a male dominated legislature to ban all abortions.

5. Permitted summer bear hound training in the Northwoods.

6. Tolerated conservation regulations written by gun-oriented lobbyists, many from out-of-state.

Most of Wisconsin’s dumbness can be attributed to the gerrymandered travesty that has made a mockery of fairness in Wisconsin government for years.

There was a time–and the keeper’s crowd remembers it, when dumbness did not carry the Wisconsin day and the state was a leader in “smart” government–of the people, for the people and by the people.

“Those were the days, my friend…………..”