ONE-PARTY STATE AMERICA?

Nobody in his or her right frame of mind should take the unfolding Wisconsin saga any lightly. What is manifesting in our very eyes is a calculated attempt to crush the only structural support base of the DNC. Politics, we know is a game of numbers, and if the opposition succeeds in depleting your base, you are defeated. It is not just the GOP doing this. It is the special interests, the corporations, and the multi-millionaires who are solely driven by the bottom-line. Outsourcing and the concept of free trade were the twin evils that decimated the private sector middleclass. Now the same cartel are about to write the obituary of the public sector middleclass, which would effectively neutralize the Democratic Party as a viable opposition if they succeed.
The speaker of the House, John Boehner spent the greater part of 2010 asking, “Where are the jobs.” However, he has refused, upon assuming office to push any legislature aimed at creating jobs. Rather he has busied himself with semantics, pushing only those laws that would not scale through the Senate, let alone the White House. This is not an isolated case. It is cut-throat politics aimed at running out the clock for 2012. John Boehner and GOP know that the only way to defeat President Obama come November 2012 is with high unemployment numbers, and the economy in tatters. Citizen United was their first victory, and the GOP is emboldened by the impact of money in politics. In the last election, we witnessed the enthronement of mediocrity, at the expense of credible leadership by green-horns whose only credentials are that they hated the rest of us.
Some conservative commentators are beginning to compare the peaceful civil protests in Wisconsin with the effort that swept Mubarak of Egypt from power. Understandably, liberals are outraged at this comparison because according to them, it is an effort by the conservatives to paint Governor Walker as the victim and the people of Wisconsin the villains. I believe the US is going the route of Egypt, the route that suffocates organized opposition. In Egypt, Mubarak and his ruling few are known to have amassed billions of dollars in ill-gotten wealth. In the United States, it is “scratch my back, I scratch yours”, between the Republican lawmakers and the private sector chieftains while the rest of us watch in utter hopelessness. It is not rocket science to know that the GOP does not want any opposition. They have convinced themselves that they are God’s representative on earth. The conservatives have successfully appropriated patriotism as a word with meaning if used only by them. In the recesses of the conservative mind, the acronym GOP stands for “God’s Own Party.” The Wisconsin union bursting is just a test run. Ohio and Florida are waiting in the wings.