Corporations want the good life and certainty. They’re entitled to it, and we need them.

“Job creators” are too busy running their businesses to train new workers, invest in communities, keep jobs in America, and even deal with market “uncertainties.” Gee, if everything were certain, wouldn't life be grand?

And that’s what Republicans are talking about now, a shift from people centric social norms to good corporate neighboring. Did you ever notice how conservatives never talk about job certainty for workers, health care certainty, retirement certainty, livable wage certainty, or education certainty? People exist to be herded into the free market, and left there to take their chances, come what may.

And businesses don’t have to worry, because they’re protected by something called tort reform. People, on the other hand, get tough mandatory sentences to keep them in line.

This is where we are now.

Conservatives are energized by Walker’s courageous, but jobless, grip on government. In their world, success is measured by dominance and control, and not necessarily by things they succeed or fail at. 

  

And conservative voters are angry over what they’ve been told is a vengeful recall election. An attempt to undo their 2010 vote. And like my conservative friend in Milwaukee explained, he doesn't want to return to a time when we had higher taxes and union control.