https://middlewisconsin.org Fairness. Respect. Community. Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:33:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Middle-Wisconsin.jpg https://middlewisconsin.org 32 32 https://middlewisconsin.org/who-elected-this-white-man/ Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:35:26 +0000 https://www.middlewisconsin.org/?p=6079 Who elected this white man to the office of the POTUS? In her much discussed book The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, political scientist Katherine Cramer locates voters’ discontent in the disconnect between rural and urban worlds. She says very little about racial resentment, focusing instead on […]]]> https://middlewisconsin.org/activism-works/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:46:16 +0000 https://www.middlewisconsin.org/?p=5863 Senate Health Care Bill did not pass. It’s not clear what Republicans will try next but it is clear that engaged citizens can and do make a difference. We can’t promise it will always work. But we can see that voter resistance can force a change of course. So when Trump and McConnell and Ryan […]]]> https://middlewisconsin.org/winning-is-the-only-thing/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 01:09:24 +0000 https://www.middlewisconsin.org/?p=5817 Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo wrote an important post last week arguing that Voting Rights Defeatism is Toxic. It’s his response to some of the ways people and pundits reacted to John Ossoff’s loss in the Georgia special election. Complaining about voter suppression may provide some emotional balm. But “the simple fact is that […]]]> https://middlewisconsin.org/another-look-at-2016-election/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:53:04 +0000 https://www.middlewisconsin.org/?p=5727 While we await developments on a number of critical fronts — Will the Republicans running our state ever agree on transportation funding? Will the US Senate stumble as it tries to formulate a healthcare bill that can pass both the Senate and the House? Will the Supreme Court issue a stay in Gill v Whitford? […]]]> https://middlewisconsin.org/what-motivated-2016-voters/ Sat, 03 Jun 2017 19:49:31 +0000 https://www.middlewisconsin.org/?p=5711 Professor Katherine Cramer Walsh, author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (March, 2016), finds the split between rural and urban voters’ choices to be rooted in what she calls “group consciousness.” In an article published years before her book, she concludes that rural voters, at least […]]]>