To Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, America’s labor union members are the same as murderous, beheading, caged-prisoner-immolating ISIS terrorists. Exactly the same.
That’s what he told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. The governor said that because he destroyed public sector labor rights in Wisconsin after 100,000 union supporters protested in Madison he could defeat ISIS as President of the United States.
That sums up all the GOP hate and vitriol against labor union members in recent years. It would appear that Republicans can’t discern the difference between suicide bombers and working men and women who band together to collectively bargain for better wages and safer conditions. Republicans, it seems, can’t see that a foreign extremist group that kidnaps 276 schoolgirls is not the same as an American labor organization seeking to improve the lives of families and communities. This GOP blindness explains the relentless campaign by GOP leaders to renege on contractual obligations to workers, squash labor rights and slash the pay and benefits of union members.
How can an organization which sends hundreds of its members to protest at a private citizen’s house complain about hatred? The left’s hatred is unlimited and if you examine the vitriol on blog comment boards, the vast majority comes from the unhinged left. Every single serial killer over the past 4-5 years was a left-leaning lunatic. The Tea Party and other right thinking groups can’t begin to compare to these Neanderthals. I grew up in the heart of a union community. I learned to dislike them even as a child, even though many of my family members belonged to it. I simply couldn’t understand why they would douse two of their own union officials with gasoline and set them on fire, and to show their compassion, do so in front of a hospital. They have outlived their usefulness and need to disappear.