This recall affects more than just Wisonsin. When Walker went after collective bargaining like he did, he woke up a sleeping giant called the American labor movement. His efforts will affect other elections because Republicans waged war on the American worker through Walker. Mess with people's livelihoods like that and they will get off their ass and become active politically.
Originally Posted by: DakotaT
They already are. /see current Prez.
I won't argue the historical roles played by unions. I won't even argue against the "we needed them" argument.
But the key word in that quotation is "needed." Past tense.
Today is not 1912. The world has changed. Unions, like the big corporations they oppose, are organizations built upon conformity and similarity. To be successful, today's organizations and today's individuals must be built from uniqueness and difference. Most markets, global and otherwise, are no longer mass markets. Yes, there are big players (Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook), but most of them are big because they've found ways to scale "being
different things to everyone," not from being the same thing for everyone. Today's buyers have had enough experience with bespoke life that they aren't going to give it up as long as people find ways of producing bespoke goods and services cheaply enough, and there are billions of independent contractors out there who are willing to do so. Amazon Marketplace, eBay, Alibaba.com -- these are the future.
The sooner Americans realize that unions and big corporations need to go the way of the dinosaur, the better.
Walker? He's a politician who has glommed onto an idea. But he's still a politician. A prostitute without stilettos and a microminiskirt is still a prostitute.
The real lesson of the recall is that too many of the people of the state of Wisconsin haven't realized what century they're living in. And until they do Wisconsin is destined, like Iowa, to being a state of third-raters.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)