If thereĂ ‚¬ „ s some good to come out of the right-wingĂ ‚¬ „ s war on Wisconsin and other state employees, itĂ ‚¬ „ s that we now have a better insight into the Republican playbook against public sector unions, which boils down to this: 1) Manufacture a fake budget crisis in order to frighten the stateĂ ‚¬ „ s residents; 2) PR the false-crisis hard enough until it breaks out of the right-wing/libertarian pipeline and into the mainstream media; 3) Blame the fake crisis on a fake villain -- Ă ‚¬Ĺ"greedyĂ ‚¬ ť state employee unions -- thereby pitting the public against state workers. That way, when Republicans pass new laws destroying teachers and firefighters unions, theyĂ ‚¬ „ ll come off as heroes defending the public from greedy unions, rather than as sleazy mercenaries carrying out their corporate sponsorsĂ ‚¬ „ dirty work. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)