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JOHN HINDERAKER: One More Thing About Wisconsin. A common theme of the union demonstrators in Ma

JOHN HINDERAKER: One More Thing About Wisconsin.

A common theme of the union demonstrators in Madison today was that Governor Walker is a “dictator.” This showed up on sign after sign. It sheds light, I think, on how public union members in particular, and liberals in general, think. What is going on here is that the voters of Wisconsin have elected a Republican Governor and–overwhelmingly–a Republican legislature, precisely so that they can get the state’s budget under control.

What the Democrats don’t like isn’t dictatorship, it is democracy. That is why the Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate fled the state en masse–they prevented a quorum, so that a vote they were going to lose couldn’t take place. Once again, it is democracy they are trying to frustrate, not dictatorship.

One could make the point more broadly about the organized labor movement. The unions’ top priority is to eliminate the secret ballot in union certification elections. Why?

I think we know.

UPDATE: “To quote Bill Hobbs, ‘Democrats believe in democracy – except when they lose’.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).