Quotable

From Uppity Wisconsin's own Jud Lounsbury, who takes on the fear of discussing collective bargaining among some on the left:

Some will argue that talking about collective bargaining too much will fire up Walker's base too much. It will, but it will also fire up our base.

What Cieslewicz is doing is assuming that since Walker is attacking the Democrats for being beholden to "big government union bosses" that government unions must be bad.
That's not it. The reason why Walker is constantly talking about public sector unions is because he is trying to fire up his own base and trying to persuade those that don't have an opinion about public sector unions to have a negative opinion of public sector unions.

The answer, therefore, is not to talk about public sector unions. That's the exact opposite of what we should do, because it will allow Walker to define public sector unions to those in the middle that don't have a strong opinion formed.

If Walker is allowed to fire up his base define public sector unions to those in the middle, we most certainly lose. But, if we fire up our own base and simultaneously define public sector unions to those in the middle, we have the best chance of winning.

Methinks that those who on the left who are most afraid of bringing up this topic are also those who are aware that Kathleen Falk dominates this, as well as most, if not all, of the other issues.

It's pitiful that there are those that refuse to even acknowledge them that brought them to the dance in the first place.