Why don't the Democrats like democracy?

In watching the TV coverage of the Wisconsin protests by the public employee unions and the various responses to them, I started wondering why the Democrats do not like democracy. The governor and the legislature were replaced in last November's elections in Wisconsin specifically to deal with the state's budget crisis. The voters chose the Republican party to put an end to business as usual in the state. So now, when the governor and the legislature are doing exactly what they told the voters they would do and exactly what the voters chose in rather overwhelming fashion, the response from the Democrats is to try to subvert the process. Democrats are not debating the proposed moves trying to convince the Republican legislators to change their minds. Democrats are not organizing wisconsin citizens to write to legislators or otherwise to lobby them to change their minds. No, Democrats state senators are hiding at a resort in Illinois so that there can be no quorum in the legislature to take action. And the unions which are an arm of the Democrats are threatening the families of the governor and the legislators with unruly mobs gathering outside the homes of these people.

If the Tea party protests of 2009 and 2010 had done anything like sending mobs to the homes of opponents, the national media would have treated the story as the rebirth of the Nazi party. But the silence from the major media outlets on the union protests of this sort is deafening.

In fact, the media is not just silent on the Democrats attacks on democracy and "civility", but they are distorting the coverage in order to help in those attacks. The governor of Wisconsin said that he was going to call out the national guard in the event that the public employee unions went on strike (or called in sick in a massive way) in order to make sure that the critical services of the state continued to be operational. I watched the video of his statement. Then I read four separate articles about the possibility of the National Guard being activated and each one intimated that the Guard would be used to put down the protests. This is a monstrous distortion, but it is part of the narrative of the Democrats in Wisconsin. The duly elected governor is a "dictator" who is out to break the unions. The fact that what the governor wants and the legislature is about to pass is a requirement that state employees (other than firemen and policemen) will have to contribute to their health insurance coverage and pensions at a rate less than one-half the average of private employee in the state is portrayed as an attack on the children.

So let's get this straight: requiring the teachers to pay for some of their own health care will mean that the students will not get as good an education. What total nonsense.

The true fight in Wisconsin is this: for the first time in a long time, the public employee unions in the state totally lost an election. When the results of democracy are to be put into action, the unions and their Democrat allies just cannot abide it. Just as the Democrats in congress ignored the will of the people to pass Obamacare last year, the unions and the Democrats in Wisconsin are ignoring the will of that state's electorate. Fortunately, for all of us, elections have consequences.

One afterthought: Keep in mind that once the bill finally gets passed, the unions and the Democrats will run to a sympathetic court to have the law overturned.