Wisconsin Disaster

Scott Walker managed to hang on in Wisconsin and win a reasonably convincing recall election.

We all have our narratives.    This guy thinks it's about the failure of anger.  Some say it's about the Tea Party or about the huge money disparity (Republicans outspent Democrats 10:1).  Here's mine:

Corporate America has managed to nearly destroy private sector unions, leaving the public sector as just about the only place where unions are still strong. With the destruction of private sector unions has come worse benefits (less vacation, less health insurance through work, no more pensions) for most workers. Those workers are understandably mad about this. They look at government bureaucrats, teachers, and firemen who still have that stuff they used to have, and they're jealous. So they want to take it away from the lucky government workers who still get the benefits they no longer receive.

I'm angry about that too. But to me the problem is that the rest of the workers don't get the security they used to get, thanks to the destruction of unions. I'd like to see workers fight for each other to get back to that; but instead we have non-unionized factory workers voting to screw unionized government workers so that their bosses can get bigger bonuses and tax cuts. So Conservatives win this round, and maybe they'll keep winning- unfortunately it's workers who are continuing to lose.