I am tired of the Middle East protests being compared to WI/OH/IN. It is not the same. Not even a little the same.
In the middle east it was one people, as a whole, rising up against corruption. Here it is a specific subset (unionized workers) rising up against little tiny teabaggy men with little tiny parts in the teabaggy movement.
Since when do we need to be in a Union to ask for our rights? And since when is it the government adn teabaggers and not the corporations who are under paying us? I am not saying that those who are protesting shouldn't be. They certainly should be.
But what is stopping us from seeing this as a first step? The tip of the sword that leads the entire working class to rising up, protesting the Corporatists, and demanding better treatment. Better pay. Better health care. Better education. It is not teabaggers or the government who whittle away at our opportunities with each passing day. It is corporations.
What would we need to do to overthrow them? Or at least protest them? Wall street protests? Protests at every major headquarters on US soil? It's vast, it's extensive. It's seemingly impossible. But if the entire workforce, as one immovable body, did it at one time...then maybe....just maybe....
Yes, I am a hopeless dreamer. Sue me.