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Posted on 08/12/2011 12:22:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
This is too optimistic. Wisconsin is the first couple battles of trench warfare. The unions have a lot of money and other states are more union friendly. I worry what will happen in Michigan and Pennsylvania, for instance. We are in a war with entrenched Lib power bases and we have less resources than them. Wisconsin proves that they can’t simply muscle their will through against needed, common sense reforms. That is great news. But it doesn’t mean they are dead, or that they won’t change their tactics. Get ready for years of battle.
Bad analogy (or at least I hope so). Although nearly all the defenders of the Alamo were killed, their side eventually won the war for Texas independence. Maybe Napoleon's invasion of Russia would be a better analogy. It wasn't the end of Napoleon, but it was his highest point and he lost a lot in the futile battle and retreat.
Well - I doubt that we’ve heard the last gasp out of the union thugs, entitlement leeches, living-in-mommy’s basement social media crowd, but in all honesty I think we are more than ready for them. Just be prepared for brutality, and don’t be timid as these schoolyard thugs try to intimidate us.
This was a very serious defeat for Regressives, sometimes known as Progressives. Wisconsin was a hotbed of progressivism, and the people there have recognized inherent destruction in its structure.
Wrong analogy. The Alamo was a successful holding action that, despite the loss of he garrison, held up the Mexican army for 13 crucial days and set up the ultimate victory at St Jacinto.
A better analogy would be the Progressives Battle of the Bulge, a costly vain counter attack trying to stave off final defeat
>> Bad analogy (or at least I hope so).
Amen to both.
>> Maybe Napoleon’s invasion of Russia would be a better analogy.
or Hitler’s. Squandered resources in a futile effort that contributed to the downfall of a culture of malignant evil.
Battle of the Bulge would be a good analogy
Now that is a good analogy.
Yeah, of all the ones I’ve considered so far, I’d have to agree the Battle of the Bulge lines up pretty well with the Battle for the Wisconsin Legislature.
Yeah, you're right. It isn't the high water mark of leftism, but rather a violent but futile counterattack after they've already started losing.
More like the progressive’s Pickett’s Charge from the battle of Gettysburg.
“Wisconsin was a hotbed of progressivism”
Wasn’t Donna Shalala the Regent or some such at UW?
Uh, uh, Little Round Top. Pickett's Charge will be Nov. 2012.
Roundtop was the midterms.
Nov 2012 will be Appomattox Courthouse.
Unions and the liberal agenda are not dead.
BUT folks in states like Illinois or Calif. that raise taxes greatly are losing companies thus jobs.
These companies look for low taxes and less govt. regulation and involvement.
If it persists those states will be in economic decline.
Hell, if you were about to start any manufacturing company tomorrow, are you going to do it in Illinois or say South Carolina. A right to work state with low taxes and more and more an educated workforce?
And if you lived in Chicago and had half a chance to move to
South Carolina in January, well?
You assume that progressives will give up if they are soundly defeated at the polls. They won't. They will never be defeated. They will change tactics, and we already see flashes of their next strategy in the mob violence they have organized in state and federal office buildings.
Like all evil, we can only hope to hold it at bay for as long as possible.
I hate to say it, but my candidate for best analogy would be the Battle fo Crecy. A solid win but 100 years before the war ends.
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