Once again, here we are

Today, in Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker is likely to barely survive a recall election.  You can follow the day's events at First Draft where Athenae has provided a pre-game speech here.

We think this is some insurmountable problem, some terrible divide, that we've never seen before. We have always had people saying sit down, shut up, don't rock the boat, while some slick-talking jerk in a shiny suit was pouring fire and brimstone about how the company was gonna mess you for your own damn good. We have always had the jerk, too, and his bosses, and the company will always be with us. This is how this has always worked. What we haven't always had is an entire pseudo-middle-class establishment media, especially on 24-hour cable news, appealing to ignorant-ass 'necks reinforcing the message to lay back and think of Wall Street, or else they'll come for you next, but even that's not a total excuse.

They're always coming for you, is what I want to tell everybody who's angry and everybody who's scared. The jerk, the company, they're always out there, and the only thing you can't afford is to think they're on your side. When they're done with the teachers and the steelworkers and the cops, they'll come for you, too, and no racist sign or hat with teabags glued on gonna save your soul then. The only thing to fear is fear itself, said the last person who understood this well enough to make a case, so up you get.

But if you're too busy today to watch closely, here's what will happen.  Walker, who has brought this near calamity on himself by pushing through a radical attack on collective bargaining rights last year, is going to very narrowly hang onto his seat. Most national news organizations will spin this as a great victory for the Republicans' austerity agenda and excellent news for Mitt Romney.  One or another Obama surrogate will place the blame squarely on liberals for even bothering to make a fuss of this in the first place.

Soon enough we'll be on to the next radical Republican initiative for consensus Democrats and pundits to legitimize. And on and on like that.