Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin
How strange and wondrous it must be to gaze from some celestial perch
and see history -- your history -- being relived. From

their great
Progressive Precinct in the Sky the family of Robert "Fighting Bob"
LaFollette surely must be smiling as they

observe the throngs of workers
and sympathizers flooding Madison to protest the Koch brothers and
corporate America's drive to

cripple and ultimately destroy Wisconsin's
public service unions. The LaFollettes have seen and lived it all
before.
I

know the LaFollettes. I spent four years researching and writing a safety

valvesbook about them. And I'll wager that Chemical pumps they would see the growing
resistance in this fourth year of the so-called Great Recession --
which, for those who have lost jobs, homes, and futures is
indistinguishable from a Depression -- as a turning point, a wake-up
call that begins a counter-revolution against the steady

encroachment of
the political and corporate Right, with help from Democratic
"centrists," on the shrinking contours of the

social contract they
fought so hard to advance.

2011-08-26

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