From Lance Fairchok at American Thinker.
... Wisconsin was Democrat political theater at its finest. Milking the civil rights movement for every drop of sympathy, the Rev. Jesse Jackson recited his tired rhyming shtick on the steps of the state house, conflating the conflict there with a time of actual injustice. Ironically and sadly, Students for a Democratic Society demonstrated in solidarity with a privileged minority of "haves" to undermine the democratic process. The courses taught by their well-compensated professors left out critical analysis. A bonus for the unions, they got naïve teenage foot soldiers and bearded graduate students to shout and rampage and shove democracy aside for nothing. Real thugs are so expensive.
"You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments." Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
The mass-produced signs used by demonstrators and the statements used by leftist pundits and political apparatchiks, held the predictable moral rhetoric intended to convince the public that theirs was a fight against tyranny. Yet, the people placed Republicans in power in Wisconsin in a free and fair election. Democrats fled to Illinois when they could not defeat the governor's necessary and long overdue austerity measures, within the rules of a democratic legislature. So beholden to union special interests they abandoned their responsibility to the states citizens, an act of political cowardice that has become the Democrat standard. Their actions show they do not respect or accept the duties and constraints placed upon citizen legislators within the constitutions of the nation and their state.
Elections are either won or lost within our political system, there is no other alternative. Those who win have the approval of the majority of citizens for the policies and legislation they have promised to enact. That reality usually prevents what happened in Wisconsin. It assumes both sides accept that the rule of law is in the best interest of all. A setback means a legislator struggles harder or reassesses, working to bring about the legislation they feel is best for the constituency whose interests they represent. If they lose, they do not refuse to play or unleash foul-mouthed thugs on the institutions they so recently spent into insolvency. No Democratic Republic can operate for long when one side sabotages the process when they do not get their way.
The public sector unions are saying clearly and loudly that they deserve privileges and status denied the vast majority of the citizens whose taxes pay their inflated salaries, and implicit in their violent rhetoric is the threat that if they do not get their way they will burn the statehouse down, even kill their political opponents. They further let us know that their privileges should come off the backs of those whose labors are much greater and whose rewards are far less, peasants to their royal status, "have-not" to their "have." This is the truth of the national debate under the Democrats. President Obama, the great divider, is a stooge of union bosses. The latter care nothing about citizens not members of their union. ...
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