1. Did any of the demonstrators vote for this jerk and his minions?
2. Why?
3. If you agreed with him (he never kept any of this secret) why are you protesting now?
4. If you didn't vote - where the hell were you in November?
5. If you didn't vote for him - where were you in the months preceding November?
I think the protests are great. I think all the public workers need to strike in all states where they are under fire. Whether union members or not. No buses, garbage collection, building permits, capitol workers etc. The state citizens and the state government need to find out what it's like without public sector workers. Make the various legislators who keep talking about shutting down the government eat crow by giving them a taste of a real shutdown.
When the legislature has to flip their own switches, route their own calls, change their own toilet paper rolls, empty their own trash, order their own supplies and all the other daily functions that make it all work and work smoothly, maybe they might remember the promises they made and the contracts they signed. For decades the promise was: we can't pay you what the private sector does, but we can make up for it in benefits. Now they don't like the contracts they made and want to change the rules of the games. To bad, so sad.
The citizens need to be reminded also. They need to be reminded that the things they take for granted, the things that make their lives go smoother and easier are functions of public workers.