What Walker is doing in Wisconsin is Reaganomics in microcosm.

If we want to defeat it nationally, we must use its example due to its visibility currently. Reaganomics has always been about sabotaging the budget to replace public with private. It always fails economically on the macroeconomic scale. But centering in on one state, we can make it easier to show people how it works and what really causes budget revenues to shrink. Point it out to the next person that touts its propaganda.

Democracy movement moment.

It feels like we need a solid focus to fight for, with SPECIFICS we demand.

I mean, the Egyptian protesters had a clear goal: They wanted Mubarak gone. Nothing else would do.

We are finally seeing people here wake up and stand up, but to get a movement going, what can be the top 1 to 3 three straightforward specifics we can get everyone on board with? Something black and white, with a concrete, immediate result?

The whole damn system needs revamped...there are so many things we should be protesting en masse.

But we know to be effective and gain traction it has to be kept simple. When something is achieved that shifts the power more towards the collective, then more specifics can be addressed.

Is it supporting unions and stopping these governors from trying to eliminate their right to exist, with collect bargaining rights? Can that one issue, even in states where unions are pretty much nonexistent start to shift things in a meaningful way, do you feel?

Regardless, we have to stand with and stand up for the unions. That's a given.

I'm speaking to your larger question.

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Wrecking budgets for the wants of the powerful without regard to the many and blaming the many. I was thinking of attacking the ideology that says catering to rich and powerful interests serves the common good. Of course I believe in alternatives we can do to circumvent the damage.

But, the captains of commerce have always wanted to destroy organized labor--collective bargaining costs more, so do labor safety standards and environmental standards. The idealized business friendly environment that Walker and the Republicans are pushing to make America more competitive, is a business environment that is as free of regulation as was available prior to unions.

What has happened over time is that the captains of commerce have cultivated and applied fear and anxiety to create a huge jealous underclass that emerged last year as the angry tea-baggers. With the cover of an economic Pearl Harbor the rich activists through Club for Growth have unleashed in red-states their plan to change the nation.

The attack on public sector unions is coordinated. It intentionally preaches jealousy as a smoke screen. It is part of capitalism's natural tendency to push the envelope toward exploitation of workers and consumers. Scott Walker is pushing that boundary. The people of Wisconsin have noticed, and are pushing back.


The republicans have rekindled the long struggle between business and labor in Wisconsin after decades of peaceful, productive cooperation.

And like Dubya saying "Golly, we've got a surplus from Clinton so let's cut taxes!"