Recall Elections Jeopardize Democracy? You can make this stuff up, if you're the far right wing

As a Democrat and liberal, I don’t recognize the people conservatives write about in their effort to take a shot at us. I’m sure you’ve realized by now they’re describing how they would react, what they would do, if the tables were turned. Remember ramming health down their throats over a years’ time, actually 70 years’ time, when it only took 5 months to undo every Democratic change made over the last 8 years in Wisconsin?  So here is another insight into the conservative paranoid mind…projecting:

Democracy Shrugged in Wisconsin Slugfest By Gary Larson : Don't look now, but a vital part of democracy itself is on trial, if not in jeopardy, if events go the way pushy forces on the left fervently desire. Public union officials view government, their members' employer, as a never-empty ATM machine funded by OPM (Other People's Money).

Another example of projection. First, dues come out of member’s earnings, not OPM. How is it projection? Republicans have a long line of contributors waiting for government contracts that will surely empty that ATM machine filled with OPM. Example: Vouchers, road builders.

They would toss over the cliff budget-minded legislators with "Rs" after their names, in favor of a more manipulative bunch.  Such as those lily-livered 14 Democrat senators who skipped to Illinois in February, on union bosses' orders, rather than participate in rational budget reform.  

Liberals, and for that matter, the Wisconsin 14, don’t take orders like conservatives must be guilty of.

If it pans out the special elections would subvert the democratic process.  Union leaders will have taken their members' dues, often involuntarily taken, to overturn results of the last regularly-scheduled election. Mediatracker (www.mediatracker.org) Brian Sikma gives us the answer:

"Their agenda thwarted by voters in one election, they [progressives and the left] were not to be stopped from forcing a new election. In banana republics, forcing new elections because a powerful cabal didn't like the outcome of a recent election is hardly viewed as democratic."

Teachers mostly, many with bogus, deceitful "sick" excuses left their classrooms (being paid, in effect, to protest), closing down some schools, to march mob-like to the Capitol.

In their fury they ripped up public property, occupied the Capitol, chanted slogans and sang a lot, something about "overcoming" as if this was a civil rights deal instead of a union-initiated power struggle.  Protesters posted hateful signs.   One depicted Gov. Walker as hate object Emmanuel Goldstein in George Orwell's dystopian novel, "1984." 

So let the rich, a group already paying taxes through their nostrils, flee the state.  Who cares? Heck, who needs the rich, anyhow? All John Galts, well, they can go to hell. Reeks of garden variety socialism, doesn't it?  Friends such as AFSCME help stir the boiling cauldron. As for the poor,  they can go to hell, victims of the me-first class of privileged public servants.

A governing class of a special interest would retain the power to tax on a Robin Hood scale, or worse, as in a socialists' paradise. In which case God help us all, rich or poor, in such a democracy diminished.  Yes, this could happen in America.