Gibson writes: "If an unlikable, pasty white guy with a personality akin to a piece of wood and a forgettable name like Scott Walker can turn a Northern blue state red by taking a dump all over the bottom 90 percent to reward the top 1 percent ... this Republican strategy can be replicated anywhere."
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, 04/13/12. (photo: AP)
What Does Wisconsin See in Scott Walker?
27 May 12
Reader Supported News | Perspective
ne consistent set of characters on the Tim and Eric Awesome Show are the characters Carol and Mr. Henderson. Carol is an office secretary, and Mr. Henderson is her abusive boss. Carol always finds herself somehow stimulated by Dan's constant verbal abuse and berating her for everything from her weight, the way she smells, her lack of fashion and the way she talks. Carol not only continues to work for Dan, but is actually turned on by his constant bullying and abuse. The same comparison could be made for the half of Wisconsin that still wholeheartedly supports Gov. Scott Walker.
To make it perfectly clear that he planned on rewarding corporations by sticking it to the middle class, Walker called a special session on his first day office for "job creation," where he passed $117 million in state tax breaks to corporations before telling teachers they were the cause of the deficit because they had union wages and benefits. And despite the 14 Democrats who left the state in protest of Walker's union-busting budget bill to deny a quorum, Walker and his fellow servants of the rich forced the bill through anyway. The corporations got their big tax break at the expense of health care for sick children and the jobs of qualified teachers. And those corporations still aren't hiring. In fact, Wisconsin has the worst jobs record in the nation despite Walker's tax breaks, and lost 5,900 jobs last month alone.
If putting a corporate boot on the necks of working families to spite his political opponents isn't enough to convince Walker's supporters they're voting against their own best interests, Walker is also an outspoken criminal who lies under Congressional oath. When asked, while testifying under Congressional oath, if he had any ulterior political motives behind his Budget Repair Bill, Walker, of course, said no. Walker argued his bill was written to respond to unions' proposals submitted in December. But his staff started work on the bill just 20 days after his election, and told a billionaire campaign donor he would "use divide-and-conquer" strategies to pit private- and public-sector Wisconsin workers against each other to make Wisconsin "a completely red state." Lying under oath is perjury, which is a criminal act. And criminals belong in jail, not the governor's mansion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9uxrZXyfzc
In 2010, the year Scott Walker was elected and the Tea Party took over Congress, the top 1% took in 93% of all income. Taking everything Walker and his ilk say at face value, the only reason our economy is still struggling is because those in the obscenely wealthy top 1% still don't have enough money to create jobs. This underlying belief explains contemporary Republican governance. If the rich only had more money, things would improve. Now, 1 percenters and corporate executives from out of state are pouring in money by the truckloads to help Scott Walker beat the recall attempt, hoping such governance will continue because workers' wages be damned, their profits are all that matter.
Wisconsin has become the epicenter of politics right now, and is rightfully seen as a proving ground for all future Republican politicians. If an unlikable, pasty white guy with a personality akin to a piece of wood and a forgettable name like Scott Walker can turn a Northern blue state red by taking a dump all over the bottom 90 percent to reward the top 1 percent, and survive 100,000 people occupying the state capitol and a recall election brought about by 1,000,000 signatures to boot, this Republican strategy can be replicated anywhere. And it will, if Walker wins on June 5th.
I'll have to assume Wisconsinites who like Scott Walker like him for the same reason Carol likes Mr. Henderson. Even though he calls her a cow, makes crude sexual advances and throws coffee in her face without provocation, Carol still goes to bed at night dreaming lovingly of Mr. Henderson. Wisconsin Republicans simply must get off on the abuse Walker happily bestows upon them and their children.
Carl Gibson, 25, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut. You can contact Carl at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and listen to his online radio talk show, Swag The Dog, at blogtalkradio.com/swag-the-dog.
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As I see it, there were two factors at play. The DEMS aka DCCC, DNC, DLC, o, and soldout gang FAILED to back with money and presence the entire 2010 election...almo st like deer in the headlights or by plan.
And secondly, the o was so obviously on the wrong side of everything, giving away bargaining chips BEFORE the bargaining, backing and expanding a zillion bushco travesties which we all know so I won't do the boring reiteration for the zillionth time.
I leave you to your own conscience in voting straight dem...torture, wars, drone slaughter, whistle blower prosecutions, mega expanded internal spying, suppression of all protests in one way or another...OH!!s orry, I said I would try and not bore posters with Department of Redundancy Department reduncancies.
you could not have said it any better.
"the dems have been promissed a seat at the banquet of the feudal fourth reich."
no matter how you may want to slice it or spin it, that's the long and short of it.
fliteshare, that's excellent!
i read that article yesterday. you are right on point my friend.
however, they a bit of mind expansion regarding their idea of moral rectitude.
Amen to that -- I did too.
Do you ever wonder whether the polls are "fixed" like everything else? Looking at these WI polls, I can imagine if I were a Dem on that state, first of all I'd be in a state of disbelief -- "how could this be?" Next, I'd be terribly discouraged. Discouragement and hopelessness foster apathy, especially if I've worked as hard as possible on the recall effort...riggin g the polls to show their candidate running strong would be a good way to discourage the Dem/progressive vote, wouldn't it? It's also possible that such discouraging poll numbers might make WI Dems/ progressives question their own reason and maybe second-guess themselves.
Chilling to contemplate...a re we so easily led?
A number of democrats have complained that Obama is not campaigning there too. I have heard Wisconsinites say that this is a matter for THEIR state. They want to show that THEY can do it.
If it ends badly, ...which I sure hope not....The republicans will jump all over it, and try to make it all about Obama, which it IS NOT.
I think we all should keep a sharp eye on this election. There is NO DOUBT in my mind that Walker and his gang will try to steal it. If the exit polls differ markedly from the voting result, we have to scream BLOODY MURDER and demand an investigation. .....a VERY thorough investigation.
In 04 the election was absolutely STOLEN IN OHIO. The maker of the Diebold voting machine told Bush, that he would ensure a win?? The democrats would not investigate and contest the result. That was a huge mistake. They should have done it. I hope they learned, that this is NOT the time to roll over and give up.
WE have to FIGHT for everything EVERY VOTE..... AND WE NEED PAPER RECEIPTS!!!
In a sane world there would be no Republican in any office until the wingnuts were purged.
I sure hope so, Conniejo! It makes sense to me that the repigs would be putting out rigged poll results -- that fits right in with the rest of the nasty tricks in their repertoire.
Pulling for Wisconsin and the ouster of walker and his henchmen!
We're faced with lesser-evil choices every day — welcome to reality.
Yes but in elections now there is NOTHING left but lesser evil choices.
I have yet to hear a convincing argument of why I should consider any "conservative" anything but the greatest evil.
A huge amount of money is being spent to suppress voting. Republicans have learned that the fewer the votes cast, the better they do.
This election cycle will test American democracy as never before, and the people must express their will at the ballot box. Conservative ideology (and propaganda) has made America a greedy, ugly, frightened nation. Voting can change that. We still have a choice. Please vote!
1. The media (other than a few small exceptions like RSN) is almost 100% controlled by corporate interests, and the view most people have is very biased and pro-corporation , thus pro-Walker.
2. Citizens United and the huge amounts of money the right-wing and corporations are pouring into the election. A very large percentage of people base their decisions on the ads they happen to see or hear, and Walker's side has a huge advantage there.
What does this mean for the upcoming national elections? Obama will have an extremely difficult time winning, and even if he wins, Republicans will almost certainly control both houses. Unless we have a much bigger grassroots movement than in 2008, I'm pretty sure this will happen. But so many of Obama's strongest 2008 supporters were disillusioned by his first term that there isn't much chance of an equal grassroots movement, much less a bigger one.
I disagree. I think the 2010 election has made conservatives over confident. They've overplayed there hand and made it clear how radical their goals are.
OWS has brought the real issues forward in a way that was not previously apparent to many Americans. Home foreclosures in practically every neighborhood have made people feel that banks aren't pillars of the economy. People want to move forward and find better ways of governing and doing business. Conservatives just want to go back to a mythical past that never was. I think people are smarter than that (at least somewhere around half of us).
Giving more tax cuts to those people is the equivalent of paying off a blackmailer and expecting he will leave you alone forever...
They rush to their doom.
They will earn what they deserve.
Walker committed perjury, the lie is on tape as is the proof of the lie. What have you been drinking/smokin g/shooting...or are you just a paid troll, in which case I just wasted my time and everyone else's. Try sticking just one fact into your next post.
What ?? I could be wrong but I thought Wisconsin has high unemployment and one of the most stagnant economies of the states, just the opposite of what Walker promised, which was that he would "create" a host of new jobs within the first year..... instead he's laid off workers.
He couldn't finish college, he can't pronounce the State's name and he's s tool of billionaires to boot. Just what the state needs!! A lying bag of manure who is delusional in thinking he's on the "right track".
Oh, did I mention he's under investigation though lies about that too?????????
Walker shouldn't even be allowed to mop the floor in the Capital!!!
But hating walker is like hating any sock puppet. We gotta get angry at those who control him. Then they can all go away. Jail is too good for the lot of them!!!
The storm consists of a giant number of retired/semi-re tired baby-boomers and the parents of those people that are still alive. These folks don't really care about jobs; They are either set for life on a nice (often government paid) retirement, or have little debt (from a lifetime of opportunities) and a guaranteed (for now) Social Security and Medicare benefit. They simply DON'T CARE about anyone but themselves, as they have been correctly dubbed the "me generation".
The youth are disappointed in Obama and living with the help of their parents.
The rest of the white population have "closet racist" tendencies and fear the Hispanic "takeover" of America as southerners still fear and loath "welfare queen" blacks.
This is the Tea-Party and that 50% that will oust Obama, keep Walker in office and seal the deal for a bleak future for all who are under 50 years old in America today.
I guess we can all just "self deport" but, when you were born here, where do you "deport" to?
I am a retired person and mother of three baby boomers and we ALL care about jobs. I care about jobs for my baby boomers who are all still working or wish they were! And I have grandchildren who are either working or in college or in school and I also have great grandchildren. you think we don't care about anybody but our selves? That's crazy.The only reason I don't have any debt is that I am a careful shopper and I don't have to have every new thing that comes along.
I am white and i am not a racist. Never have been. Never will be. Don't condone it and I fight against it. Won't put up with it.
Please don't lump us all together and hate everyone above a certain age. That's just dumb. Just as dumb as older people thinking everyone below a certain age is selfish or thoughtless or whatever.
You are hating the wrong people.
A HUGE number of people don't want to be told that they haven't earned and don't deserve what they have. So anyone whose essential message is, "YOU worked hard, so don't worry about anyone else. THOSE PEOPLE just don't work hard enough, and I'm not going to ask you to support them" is going to be just fine with huge swaths of people who got while the getting was good and don't care enough--or who aren't connected enough--to realize that the system doesn't work at all the way it did 30 years ago, when they were in their prime earning years.
No one wants to have their own hard work invalidated. So they'll go with the self-congratula tory crowd, even if it means completely invalidating other people's harsher realities. Thus Walker's success, who is staunchly on side of the haves and who like many Republicans has so successfully scapegoated the less fortunate and less successful.
The poor vote consistently against their own interests because of the Walmart mentality - by golly one of these days that lottery ticket will have all my numbers on it and I'll be rich and don't want to pay taxes for the programs that my current fiscal state leaves me eligible for. Seriously severe and chronic anal-cephalic impaction.
Perhaps the REAL CHANGE that voters are seeking out is not support for Walker but just getting rid of lying a self seeking current politicians.
What we need to do is stop blaming voters and start putting the blame in our current politicians in politics.
That includes ALL of them.
NEVER MIND... what was I thinking ... Just forget everything I just wrote .... This is not the comment you were looking to read...
GET A CLUE. Barbara K, and Carl Gibson... Scott Walker is filling the PUBLIC COFFERS and INCREASING THE WORKFORCE in the private sector to PAY your UNIONS and PUBLIC SECTOR members who are bitching and moaning.
Wisconsin COULD go bankrupt and all LEGACY payments could DISAPPEAR! Yeah.. think about that as you bash the guy who SAVED UNIONS from completely going bankrupt! Maybe you should EDUCATE YOURSELF to how the MONEY is generated by the PRIVATE sector to PAY the PUBLIC SECTOR. Obviously ... YOUR EDUCATION is LACKING!!!
If you want to live without public servants -- without law enforcement, fire protection, schools, libraries, parks, street and highway repair, the military -- then go live somewhere else. Walker is raping the public sector AND the private sector -- worst job creation in the nation -- the ONLY state that LOST private sector jobs last year. Get a little, just a little, educated yourself.
You cannot even believe what you are saying... cutting jobs/health care etc. for comparatively underpaid and the genuinely EDUCATED (on their own dime!) public sector workers CREATES nothing. Just as the self-serving, narrow-minded Bush tax cuts to the super-wealthy created nothing, and injured our country.
The private sector just generates more money for the private sector, while trying to extract more and more from labor at the same time it tries to pay workers less and less. [Rather reminiscent of a master/serf relationship, but not especially American or democratic.] [No doubt YOU got a public education in Wisconsin; did you pay for it with private sector money or did some elderly person on a pension help pay for it with their taxes?]
Like the Rombot, the private sector gets its jollies from 'firing' people, bailing out [but never regulating] the bigtime gambler banksters, and subsidizing the ENTITLEMENTS of the CORPORATE oil 'welfare queens', but cutting basic services to 99% of the populace.
Slave labor is not 'increasing the workforce', or maybe that's the only kind of workforce you want or can tolerate ... .
Why don't we just give ALL the money to Bill Gates (since he already has most of it) and see what will be left of the entire economy.
Maybe he will let you wash his car for 25 cent on Saturdays. Which could almost pay for the soap you had to bring.
Back to school yourself brucbaker.
So please lay off Bill Gates.
and he let the Wall St.criminals who created havoc TOTALLY off the hook. Thus, he failed himself & BETRAYED us. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, & Obama fumbled one of the best hand-offs in American history, a hated bankers created catastrophe. For his arrogance & weakness, he deserves to lose in utter humiliation, but I hope he doesn't, for others' sake.
While democrats were pointing out the TRUE differences between party lines , the republicans were purchasing the government and all the state governments they could get their greedy little hands on. While President Obama was offering an open hand to republicans at the white house, they were busy plotting to rail against a healthcare bill that provides for 30 million people to get healthcare they couldn't afford, while allowing people with pre existing conditions access to healthcare. All during the process he was mindful of the other side, not wanting to shut them out completely.
Big mistake. When he had the majority in the House and Senate, he should have run rough shod right through the middle of them. Next time WILL be different my friends, next time will be different.
Moreover, everyone who speaks to the majority as an argument forgets the Blue Dog Democrats who were more Republican than Democrat. They came from Red states that were marginally Democratic and had been recruited under the Dean, 50 state strategy. They voted 95+% of the time with the Republicans in Congress whose goal was to "do nothing in the House" and "just say no" in the Senate to try to ensure the POTUS aa a one term President - McConnell et al pronounced this as their main priority.
Couple the above with the racial motivation of the Republicans to support their 'get that Black man out of our White House strategy' and the eagerness for so many to adopt that notion both inside and outside the media, America was left the worse for it economically and relative to making progress on healthcare reform / expansion to the masses.
So don't talk to me about majorities, especially when in the Senate a majority is not enough and majority America loves to cling to its racial insanity.
TexasAggie, I think you got it right... they are not really focusing on the numbers at all, but instead on the Republican identification with white bread America and the fear of anyone outside their ethnic group. They are still horrified that we could have elected a black man to be president, and want to somehow reverse this moment in history. With the money pouring in from the Kochs and their ilk, it could happen, and, as Gibson has noted, this Republican strategy can- and will- be replicated everywhere.
We can clean out own house, once we have thrown these (R's) out on their heinies.
As long as they have the power to filibuster in the Senate with anything under 60 votes, Obama can accomplish basically NOTHING.
MORE importantly, if an (R) gets the White House, they will undoubtedly get the opportunity to appoint 2 or maybe 3 retiring conservative Supreme Court Justices, whose actions outlast MANY Presidential terms.
All I want out of Obama at this point are some liberal to moderate Supreme Court Justices. That would make for a successful Presidency in his 2nd term, IMHO.
Republicans then appeal to the lowest common denominators of the American psyche, race, fear, religious superiority in the form of intolerance and greed and the media fails to call them on it.
Coupled with the tendency of liberals and progressives to literally eat their own and to represent in spades the American need for immediate gratification, Democrats often fail to vote when they haven't gotten all they want, when they wanted it.
Democrats all to often seem to fail to realize that things take time and persistence and perseverance are what are needed to change the American political and social landscape.
These forces working in concert are the perfect breeding ground for Republicans to take over and wreak havoc on the American public, while Democrats sit back and complain.
This is a phrase I seriously wish liberals would stop using. It is counterproducti ve. Do you want to know why these voters reject Democrats? I have an easy answer. They resent being lectured to by people who, by virtue of whatever advanced degree they have from whatever private liberal college they went to, think they know what their "interests" should be. They resent being talked to as if they can't articulate for themselves what their needs are.
But maybe you're right about the framing. We should be bolder, shorter, bumper-sticker short: "Destroy the GOP government-for- profit privateers." "Save our economy: disenfranchise a Republican." "Slow recovery or economic Armageddon? You choose."
Sorry, are all those too precious as well? Do you truly think that FOX isn't pushing their own "interests" while articulating the "needs" of the willfully ignorant on the right? I resent the lies that are presented every day of the week on right-wing talk radio, and I resent them on behalf of the baffled-by-balo ney crowd as well.
Yes, they are lied and led into voting against their own best interests. They are lied and led into continuing poverty and lack of opportunity and early death from lack of access to health care, but their pride and prejudice and bloody self-righteous anger remains intact, so it's okay.
What phrase should we use instead? What lie to counter the lies?
Maybe a better strategy would be to talk to them, not at them. People don't want to be "educated". They want to be treated like equals.
@Rain17,
so what you are saying is the Repubs. are good at conning the intellectually challenged while the Dems. still think there is some sense in telling the truth and hope that people will see the difference? Silly liberals, to think there might be some good in human nature.
GAINS in the first year of recovery." Big difference. The top 1% did not get 93% of all income in 2010; they got about 20% of all income. Bad enough but not what CG wrote.
The Tea Party and Koch brothers have hijacked the national conversation to the point where people have been swindled into believing certain words represent something to be feared.
"Liberal" is a good example. It has its roots in Latin "liberalis" which is "noble, generous," lit. "pertaining to a free man.
Yet, the Republican media machine has turned it into a pejorative. I am liberal with my praise, with my time, with my energy (I actively work in two community service organizations and quietly help several others) I am proud to be a progressive liberal American... and yet people such as yourselves act like "liberal" is a bad word. p.s. I am a member of the Democratic party because, since the Civil Rights movement, have been the party more concerned with social and economic justice than the Republicans, who are more interested in numbers on a page than people.
In the end, people vote by how they feel about things, not by the facts at hand. That is why fear-mongering and race-baiting is so pervasive among those who control the Tea Party. They know it works. And they will, in the end, get people to vote against their best economic interests.
You make another mistake. Not everyone considers "economic interests" to be the most important. But those voters are probably supporting the GOP no matter what.
Every time a non-public worker receives
any form of compensation the cost of such is paid by the consumer. That is true of ditch diggers, dentists, real estate brokers, insurance agents, truck drivers, shoe store owners, and all others who provide goods or services in the private sector. We all pay via the prices we are charged.
Well guess what? Public employees are entitled to the same consideration. Why should they have to pay higher prices to support your lifestyle, while you work to undermine their very moderate standards of living?
I have no way of knowing how old or how wealthy you are, but if you are part of the [vanishing, thanks to NAFTA-type trade schemes] middleclass and nearing retirement age you had better pray to God that the same bankruptcy argument you use for Wisconsin doesn’t happen nationally. If it did, the “legacy” funds called Social Security and Medicare would not be available to you. You’d have to get by without a Social Security check, and one major illness could wipe out your lifetime savings. By the way, Social Security is self-funded. It does not add one iota to deficits, or the national debt. And before Medicare, 50% of all seniors lacked health insurance. Shall we allow Romney to bankrupt those “legacy” funds? If you think that would be ok, how do you propose the nation dispose of all the dead senior citizens who would succumb to starvation or unmet medical needs?
Of course no answer. I called them. The phone rang a long time, nobody answered.
Second time, after seven or eight rings a bored annoyed woman answered and tried to fob me off with assurances that smarter and more capable people than myself were working on it...I wore down and she told me that "negotiations were going on, and there would be an announcement soon..."
Stupid person working for a stupid institution, my message would be to you AND the DNC..."Why don't you people get jobs you like doing? and let some people who DO believe and have the guts to follow in the old and true sentiments FDR so clearly laid out for us? If you CAN'T lead, GET OUT OF THE WAY..."
Could it be that the DNC has internal polling that shows the race out of reach?
Could it be that Walker has a narrow lead and that that final 5% that Barrett needs just won't budge no matter what?
What I think is happening is that the DNC may have internal information that shows Barrett, even with Herculean assistance, is likely to lose a 52-48% election to Walker. That final 4-5% may just be out of reach for Barrett. And perhaps they don't want President Obama and the DNC affixing themselves to a race that may just be out of reach.
So unless the numbers have moved I don't necessarily fault the DNC for not openly embracing Barrett. They don't want a repeat of MA-SEN in 2010, where President Obama tried in vain to save Martha Coakeley.
I don't know how to change the mind of a person who is hell-bent on voting for Walker; truth never seems to trump lies. But it seems as if, in this watershed moment, the least the DNC can do is fight, utilizing the street energy of the grass-roots activists, running some hellaciously creative and truth-filled ads, and getting out the vote. This is our summer for the Uprising of the Common Man, for shouting with the Voice of the People for our own true government by the People, for shouting out loud for sanity in the face of the radical right -- if we hesitate at the outset, we lose it all in November. Here's hoping the current incarnation of the DNC, for once, forgets pragmatism and climbs all the way into the ring.
But with this race what seems to be the dynamic is that Barrett can't get past 46-48%, while Walker maintains 51-52% of the vote. It seems like Barrett has hit a ceiling around 47%. For whatever reason Barrett can't get that final 4-5% of the vote that he needs to budge.
I don't fault President Obama or the DNC if their internal data shows that Barrett just can't win. It may simply be a case like MA-SEN, where even if they did get involved, it wouldn't make a difference.
The DNC can poll this bit of data: This household has had enough of gutless Democrats to last a lifetime! The DNC can poll that they pursue a fool’s folly if they think they can get a donation from this address. We only give to real Democrats!
There are some fearless, courageous people in Congress, Like Rep. John Lewis. 80% of the rest of ‘em couldn’t carry his lunch bucket.
So screw the DNC. And while we’re at it screw the head honchos in the AFL-CIO. Those labor fakers are missing in action too. This from a real union person of 51 years!!!!!!!!!! !!! Today’s pie cards couldn’t carry water jugs for real workers, or for labor heroes and heroines of yore. Period!
And you can bet that if Dean was still heading the DNC it would be in there fighting.
Obama made a big mistake (at the behest of the McAuliffe/Clint on/Emanuel troika) of replacing Dean. Hell, it was Dean’s 50 state strategy that Obama used to get elected.
We want Dean! We want Dean! We want Dean!
"I think it is due to two things.
1. The media (other than a few small exceptions like RSN) is almost 100% controlled by corporate interests ...."
This is an ERROR! The media IS 100% controlled by corporate interests, for the media IS corporate. It is a free enterprise corpoarate, 'for profit' agency for itself and all of the 1%. In the U.S. it has developed the most astute and almost totally opaque propoganda program that has, or ever will, exist in the world. As with all of the 1%, the bottom line is the dollar, and the rapacious appetite for that dollar as well as the free market we allow them and the rest of the 1% free access to, makes the corporate world 100% amoral. The only morality they can possibly exhibit is the morality that they are legislated to adhere to. Those, dear folks, are trusims. Like natural resources, the market place HAS to belong to the people if a Democracy is to survive. With the War of Independence, as with the French Revolution, the upper class (monarchy) was tossed out, and now a new upper class has taken its place - the corporate world - just as greedy and far more capable of maintianing its position than any monarchy ever was,AND the media is not on their side, the media in the United States IS THEM! Their dominance and power rests entirely IN their colleague in arms, the capitalist media.
when i tried to point out that there was video evidence he just repeated, "That's you opinion.' and added he didn't want to talk politics.
my friend just lost his job because the company outsourced his division. he is a strong union supporter but he then proceeded to blame that his job was taken over by a company that uses Latinos and Eastern Europeans who will work cheap. Where was his union in this? oh, the union? the Teamsters.
but still the video proof was just 'my opinion'; i couldn't get any further with him; he doesn't realize that Walker's ruse in destroying public unions is just the 1st step in his eliminating ALL unions; the video contradicting the Congressional hearing one was Walker's promise to the financial backer that he would do away with all worker rights so she could make more money!
so sad...
It seems as if the country as a whole is gripped in a kind of social and political suicide march. Perhaps this is the era of Human Lemmings, a sign that we've run our course as a nation. Whatever happened to the United States of America, the country of purpose and liberty? Why do the worst, the most selfish and the most cynical and manipulative among us have so much power and influence? Human need has been replaced by human greed.
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