Lest you thought you could stop and revel in the leaf turning another
few degrees leftward through the political arc, with November victories
muting many of the worst DC ogres and trolls in their teabag hats,
December comes with its season of deception, and reminds us all that the
fight for a progressive America is not just what happens in a room with
the president, the Speaker of the House, and the Senate Majority
Leader. We were all so busy admiring our woodcarving handiwork, we’ve
forgotten that this is a country full of Tea Party termites, happy to
lull us into a sense of accomplishment for what our efforts presented to
the world, while state by state, they chew at the infrastructure of
community interdependence that built our nation. If we are not more
vigilant, we will be staring at a husk that turns to dust when flicked
by an American flag rat tail, wielded by an uninformed, ignorant
electorate.
What happened the past five days in the great state of Michigan is
neither the opening salvo of our battle against our big-money foe, nor
is it the last arrow in their quiver. It was exactly two years ago this
week, when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), fresh off his election,
announced he was going to seek to curtail collective bargaining for the
public sector unions in the Badger State. Neither unions nor AWOL state
senators were able to stop the Koch brothers’ acolyte, Walker. The
support from Democrats, on the national level, was almost non-existent,
as the unions sought to punish Walker for his about face, with a failed
recall election.
What these two similar events demonstrate is that the sleeping giant of conservatism lives in the state legislatures...
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