As a literal born-here Wisconsinite, hector's spoken the point better than I could. You're not engaging in a dialogue, you're littering ideological detritus and then ignoring it when someone points it out to you.
First off, it's nice to hear from someone that actually knows something about Wisconsin. So thanks for that.
Scott Walker and the state conservatives flexed the power of the governor as much as they wanted until his term was over, then they limited the power of the governor as much as they could, since Evers is not a conservative.
I have no reason to doubt this, as that is what any party does. I'm sure that is in the future for New York and the democrats.
With the pandemic, Evers was making mandates and requesting voting extensions at recommendation of medical experts, but the state supreme court was choosing not to hear his requests, stating that they cannot make judgments being that they are not medical experts instead of, y'know, listening to experts. Also, there were lawsuits because the medical experts in question were not elected officials.
There is a definite legal argument to be made that only elected officials can make decisions. Although I don't know the specific nature of the lawsuit.
Not all mandates are bad, and not all mandates are good.
Conservatives also blocked every measure to distribute absentee ballots to all registered voters
This mostly sucks. All registered voters should have gotten absentee ballots. Because they're
registered voters.
, or extend or delay the election in early 2020
This I agree with. I'm generally opposed to moving election dates around, as it is hard enough to get people to show up even when they know what day the election occurs. Moving it around just means less voters.
to when people would a) know more about the pandemic, b) have more poll workers available, c) give voters more time to figure out absentee voting. Here's what Green Bay, Wisconsin thought about it, along with about thirty links about it
And speaking for Milwaukee, it reduced voting turnout by a third.
There are some valid concerns here. I personally don't think they're enough, but this is 2 years later with all knowledge of COVID available. COVID killed the brain cells that remembered a lot of the 2020 election.
You can cut the 'masks are authoritarian tyranny' bullshit,
At no point did I say this. Please stop putting words into my mouth, or making assumptions about me.
one party was specifically opposing science and opposing the rights of people to vote safely during the pandemic. That was conservatives. Rebecca Kleefisch, who's running for governor, literally campaigned in her ads about "Tyrannical Evers" while soliciting donations a la Donald Trump's "It's not too late! Donate $50 this week (weekly) to stop the Democrats! We'll triple your donation if you do it before 10pm, our donation bonus is activated!"
Calls to safety are how we get tyranny.
Emergency Powers have to end sometime. I'm not arguing that they should have never been wielded, but rather that they were welded too long.
Stop treating me like the Right Wingers that you hate, and maybe we can engage in actual dialog instead of constantly forcing me to defend positions I don't believe in.