The real enemy of progress is the Public Sector Unions as argued by dalelama and Mort Zuckerman among others. This is simply the tired but necessary next step in the 'starving the beast strategy' of Grover Norquist and the usual collection of political reactionaries. Add to that the New Democrats, and their conscious surrender to a 'Neo-Reaganite' politics of self-willed ignorance of the political necessity of the New Deal. And we have the bankrupt politics of the present: an amalgam of Political Romanticism and just plain greed! The attack on Public Sector Unionism is a direct and frontal attack on the central power base of the Democratic Party and is the next strategic step that The Party of No is taking, and will take, to destroy that very real and effective power of the Democratic Party. The stirring up of political hysteria is a specialty of the post-war Republican Party and they are very effective in using that strategy to meet their political objectives. dalelama is just one of the chorus of voices we will be hearing for quite sometime, till the social and political menace of Public Sector Unionism is expunged from our national life.