Topic: Liberal Fascism
So how come the Left failed in its crusade to boot the fascist Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, out of office? Just ask Bob Scheer! Writing for Nation of Change, he has an answer that’s sure to warm the hearts of the citizens of the Badger State:
The electorate in Wisconsin…tat voted Tuesday against public employee unions were not expressing a rational response to the crisis, but rather a tantrum stoked by the lavishly financed demagogues of the right. The voters bought their story because the opportunism of the Democratic Party leadership has left progressives without a believable alternative to the tea party’s narrative. Indeed, job creation became a bigger issue than collective bargaining in the Wisconsin race, and the dismal national unemployment figures that came out just days before the election didn’t hurt the Republicans’ cause.
Once again, the dumbasses in Flyover Country have crushed the hopes and dreams of coastal progressives—and in the home state of such leftie luminaries as “Fighting Bob” Lafollette, William Proxmire and Russ Feingold!
Feingold, incidentally, was better at reading the tea leaves than wise guys like Scheer: He declined to run against Scott Walker in the recall election. Not that the latter is completely wrong in his commentary. It’s quite true that the Democratic Party had no believable alternative to Walker’s policies. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s candidacy was hobbled from the beginning by his inability to explain how he’d balance the state’s budget and boost its economy. It’s clear what Scheer wanted: a left-wing candidate standing on a radical platform, denouncing “Teabaggers,” “the extreme Right,” “greedy bankers,” “corporations,” etc. The likely result of such a campaign is not difficult to envision: an even more crushing Walker victory. But his diagnosis of the Democrats’ problem is spot on: no “believable alternative.”
Scheer is also correct when he points out that President Obama let the side down. And he’s understandably bitter about it:
[T]he president made two fundraising stops within 50 miles of the Wisconsin border last Friday, but studiously avoided entering the state he easily carried in the 2008 election. Instead of visiting, Obama tweeted: “It’s Election Day in Wisconsin tomorrow, and I’m standing by Tom Barrett. He’d make an outstanding governor. -bo.” Not a word of support for the unions that so slavishly support the president and spent millions propping up Barrett.
Angry contempt for the peasants and proles who failed to vote as required, dismay over a progressive president’s chicken-hearted punt—it isn’t easy being Bob!
