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Originally Posted by MsDemeanor
Strikes will just get people fired (it's in the new law) and piss off folks. Legal action and recall elections are the way to go. Someone struggling with where to stash their kids because the teachers aren't in school or who can't get services because everyone is on strike isn't going to be sympathetic. Better that they go back to their jobs and let people know that they are at work because they know how much they are needed by the people of WI.
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This is spot-on, Ms D! We--liberals, I mean--have an opportunity to make visible the case some of us have been making for a while now; namely, that radical conservative ideology is a direct assault on the middle class. But we have to be tactically smart about it (something that seems to be very difficult for liberals to do--an issue I'm exploring on my blog). The people who are ordinary workers should go back to work so people know how much they are needed. At the same time, legal action and recall elections should be engaged in. I also hope that the national Democrats are looking at what is happening and deciding that they are *finally* willing to dance with those who brought them instead of always kowtowing to conservatives (who would vote for a red devil before they would vote for a liberal) and Wall Street bankers.
Cheers
Aj
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