While I Think It is Possible

the situation in Wisconsin is hopeless because masses of people have been brainwashed by the neoliberals, their think tanks, and the media into thinking unions--especially public sector unions--are the enemy, any defeat would merely postpone the inevitable.

The neolibs CANNOT win for the simple reason there are too few of them and too many of the masses.

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During the post-war boom, workers were able to win through the trade unions significant concessions, despite the pro-capitalist orientation of the bureaucracy. With the decline of American capitalism, beginning in the 1960s and accelerating through the 1970s and 1980s, the unions’ defense of capitalism took on a new form. Increasingly, their primary function became the suppression of working class struggles and the enforcement of concessions on their own members. The interests of the bureaucracy became entirely divorced from the interests of the membership.

This process has reached a certain culmination in the present situation in Wisconsin. That the public employees union can announce that collective bargaining is the most essential issue at stake, while openly abandoning the defense of the economic needs of workers, only underscores the direct antagonism between the interests of the rank-and-file workers and the union.

My real concern is the unions will sell out to the governor while many people have been propagandized to believe unions are the enemy. The right has cleverly brainwashed workers into resenting people who have protections, even if those who resent benefit from those same protections.

These brainwashed, stupid people don't realize how good they have it.