The Good Doctor (TGD) is an adept at the production of manufactured political hysteria and we have his latest column as the printed actuality, paper or electronic, an artifact of his gift of  ‘political commentary’. Not the Olympian thought and prose styling’s of the great, lamented Walter Lippmann. TGD   cannot resist the temptation to have his political tantrums in public, thereby gaining the natural sympathy of his audience. In his latest effort the protagonist are Scott Walker Governor of Wisconsin and The Public Sector Unions of that state. Now, here the melodrama begins with the natural reasonableness of Governor Walker contrasted with the intransigence of the evil Public Sector Unions: this being characterized as a pitched battle between fiscal responsibility and fiscal irresponsibility even utter dishonesty. The resolution of this little dramatic vignette is predictable.

 What is the subtext of all these histrionics: let me present an argument. The failure of the Free Market Theology has been a severe trauma to the Conservative mind for it was the capacious economic, political even ethical construct,  that fueled both thought and action: although the ‘Financial Reform’ of 1999 lasted only until 2008. We still are experiencing that collapse, in all its dismal actuality. In strategic terms, what to do? Find a scapegoat, and what more reasonable answer than the chosen enemy of the Public Sector Union, seat of the power of the Democratic Party- perhaps, the key to victory in 2012? The Conservatives and Republicans have made a serious miscalculation as the Public Sector Unions are comprised of our brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, partners, and children. The vaunted political/economic abstraction known as ‘Austerity’ will be practiced on citizens, but not on the financial supporters of the various political permutations of Conservatism, under the umbrella of the Republican Party.