It sounds like a whisper

Well, well, well...who would have thought five short months ago that the significant gains of the republicans in 2010 would be already be in jeopardy?  Thank you Govs. Scott of Florida, Snyder of Michigan, Kasich of Ohio, and Walker of Wisconsin for doing your best to hand us back the majority.

You can tell because old Nolan is bemoaning that nasty liberal media (which exists only in his fragile mind) for letting the unions get away with murder--murder, I daresay!--while the tea party was just crucified.  Was it just me or is there anyone on the entire planet earth who did not see the Hitler depictions, the armed citizenry, the shouting down of politicians by the union rallies and protests?  Old Nolan did, though--maybe old Nolan needs to visit his doctor pronto.  Methinks he's seeing things.  Old Nolan also claims that the union movement has a history of violence--they sure do, if you count protecting themselves from the thugs hired by corporations in the days of yore to intimidate them.  I would also defy old Nolan to name the last time an American union got violent--he couldn't because unions are not stupid.  The quickest way to lose the support of the American people is to get violent.

The Free Press also jumped on the revolution bandwagon (well, as much as a vanilla flavored newspaper can) with this piece by Steven Thomma that shows how as union influence has waned since the 1980s (thanks, Ronald Reagan, you asshole) so has the financial power of the working men and woman of America.  Unfortunately, there is still work to be done--too many fault the government (not that it is completely without blame) when the bulk of the problem lies with the power of corporations and the wealthy to influence our democratic process and turn the distribution of wealth in this country completely in their favor, and at a rate that is unsustainable to our future well-being.  As Plutarch said, "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

It would also help if the traditional media would do its homework like Digby does--this whole notion that tea party members are anti-big business is a fallacy.  As Digby points out, they are little more than "willing serfs" who fellate at the altar of the wealthy.

More proof the revolution will be televised--enough signatures have been obtained in Wisconsin to start the recall process against one state senator.  Dan Kapanake, the pleasure has been all yours.  And the referendum process has already begun in Ohio to overturn Gov. Kasich's union busting bill--they have ninety days to collect 200,000 signatures (about 1 out of every eight who voted Democrat in the last Ohio election).

Still not convinced?  Check this out:  while doing "research" for this post, I looked up the lyrics to Tracy Chapman's "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution" (thus the title to this post) and discovered that in the past ten months 70,000 have checked out the song's lyrics just on this one site.  Methinks I'm not the only one writing about a revolution these days.

Peace,
emaycee