Just basing it on personal experience. Maybe a little dated but I’ve seen how effective class warfare rhetoric is on the tongues of union propagandists.
By “regular folks” I was specifically referring to people who work for wages. They love the “soak the rich” BS, which is why the GOP can’t crack a lot of the blue states politically. “Fat cats” and all that-—it’s what keeps the Obamanoids and their union allies going.
I hope you’re right and I’m wrong but I still recall the property damage, rocks being thrown, and “company” this and “company” that slurs that I had to put up with during the strikes I had to help break as a boss. It is a freaking sporting event for a lot of them, for crying out loud! Look atthe fun they are having in Madison now. If unemployment and taxes weren’t so high a lot more people would join in.
It is more than that. The (terrorist) threat of violence is all they really have. They are counting on intimidation carrying the field.
If unemployment and taxes weren’t so high a lot more people would join in.
People don't see the rocks until the tide goes out. It's pretty hard for some one sitting at home trying to figure out how they are going to pay their bills to have sympathy for some 'poor working stiff' who is whining about having to pick up part of the tab for their insurance, when I read teachers there are pushing 100K a year. It's tough for someone who would dangnear kill for a job to have pity on someone walking off of theirs.
The policies which have caused the fiscal disarray in this country have come from government largesse, and that breeds little sympathy for public employees, either.