Anti-democratic protests in Wisconsin
When Joe Klein of Time Magazine agrees with conservatives that the union protests in Wisconsin are wrong on the facts and wrong in tone, then progressives have gone too far. Personally, I think all those teachers who walked off the job have quit their jobs. They shouldn't be allowed to go back.
Revolutions everywhere--in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they're protesting against it. I mean, Isn't it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting "Freedom, Democracy, Union" while trying to prevent a vote? Isn't it ironic that the Democratic Senators have fled the democratic process? Isn't it interesting that some of those who--rightly--protest the assorted Republican efforts to stymie majority rule in the U.S. Senate are celebrating the Democratic efforts to stymie the same in the Wisconsin Senate?
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