A very sad day indeed.
But, let's remember, the leaders of organized labor in Wisconsin--- prompted by the millionaires on the national AFL-CIO's Executive Council--- pushed workers out of the streets and into the arms of a bunch of wimpy Democrats who, at best, acquiesce to the Republicans at every opportunity, rather than struggling and fighting back instead of building more potent street heat leading into a general strike which would have halted Scott Walker in his goose-stepping fascist tracks.
The proper approach, in my opinion, would have been to continue
building towards more aggressive actions in the streets, in places of
employment and simultaneously at the ballot box by taking up the
struggle to build on Wisconsin's progressive traditions for a working
class based progressive people's party to free the working class from
the two-party trap. It isn't too late to do this but working people are
going to have to forgo holding up the tails of these Dumb Donkeys
settling for what the sparrows leave behind.
