This is the key:
The cultural and historical significance of Gov. Walker's action can't be ignored. When he proposes using the National Guard to break a strike, he conjures a period of American history in which labor and capital were locked in violent, terrible struggle, when income inequality had reached epic heights, and workers had to bleed to organize. This is a step backward, not forward, in the march of American progress.A step backward to the turn of the last century. The right wing trying to lead us to this, a 19th century America. Will it lead to violence? Further, is this a proof that the authoritarian regime sought for, even yearned for by the hard right is now within sight?
Gov. Walker's action is significant because it is an expanded interpretation of the power of the executive office. This would introduce once again the idea that a governor could use the military to impose his personal, political will on a state.Dictatorship anyone?
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