On Wisconsin …

Methinks I shall keep mostly quiet about the goings-on in Wisconsin for personal reasons, but I urge others to read about what’s going on and try to keep an open mind.

I don’t buy that America would commit suicide by allowing its leaders to gut the unions. We don’t want to go to the bad old days. Nor do we want to go to the other bad old days. The latter I am talking is the strife that accompanied the fight for modern labor, even disturbances such as  the riots among lumber workers of the early 20th century around the area where I grew up in the half of that century. I am not  saying disturbances like the Grabow Riot might happen. That would certainly be a huge setback for the American worker and society. We also don’t need knuckleheads like Glenn Beck stirring the pot to make something dreadful happen which will make him a new Messiah among the right.

Things are better for the American worker today whether you like and support the unions or you don’t. When you hear news about all that is going on with all  these uber-capitalists such as the Koch Brothers who are trying to bring us back to the days of feudalism, who are trying to break the spirit of the union and the American worker, just try to keep an open mind.

Think how far we have come and how far backwards we might go. It’s hard to do, but keep an open mind.