We have the Republicans in Congress voting in lockstep to oppose Obama and the Democrats. Well, almost, now we have "Tea Party" Republicans voting in lockstep to defeat spending proposals of veteran Republican legislators.
We have Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate disappearing to deprive the Republicans of a quorum to pass an anti-public union bill.
We have thousands packing the Wisconsin capitol to protest the bill.
I have a couple of questions.
How many of the protestors voted in the last election? If the turnout of these voters was the same as the general population, they partly have themselves to blame. If they all turned out, maybe they should work harder at getting a bigger turnout in the next election.
Why the big push to strip unions of power? Could it be part of a larger corporate strategy to weaken those who question corporate power?
It seems that many corporate executives want everything their own way; governments and unions shouldn't even question their decisions. It seems that their only goal is to maximize their own compensation, to hell with the shareholders, to hell with the environment, to hell with the public good.
Not all corporate executives behave this way, but enough do and are pushing us down a slippery slope to a very uncivil society, one which really won't be good for business in the long term. It's another version of Lenin's "A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with."
