The Dems protect a lot: incompetent teachers, predatory trial lawyers, cosseted public employees and their unions with ludicrous taxpayer funded pension plans (unions only have traction these days in monopolistic or oligopolistic industries, the rest are dying (and government and regulated utilities are monopoly central by definition), affirmative action spoils seekers, and businesses who can't compete...
Great post. The amount of political power wielded by Gubmint employees is growing like wildfire.