Union activists in Madison Tuesday spoke apocalyptically of "class war," hinting wildly at general strikes and takeovers of the Capitol. They correctly see their control of the state slipping and must figure that if they bring 13,000 shouting people to Madison, they can overrule the election.
Any worried legislators should keep in mind that Walker drew about five times that many votes in Dane County alone in NovemberExactly so. Newspapers and media often report what they see and use adjectives like "massive" to describe what they see, but they rarely report what they don't see. For example, if you want to get your faces in the paper, get together 10 or 12 students at Marquette University here in Milwaukee and do a pro-choice "protest" outside of Jesu Church on campus. Bring your signs saying things like "Keep Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries," and you'll be certain to get on the local News at Six. But meanwhile there are thousands of students at Marquette (a Jesuit university) who go to Mass at Jesu every week and who, if asked, would give reliably Pro-Life opinions, but who generallly just go about their lives working and studying without feeling the need to publically announce those opinions through something called "protesting." They don't get press, because they aren't doing something that registers within our culture's conceptual biases as "news."
With regard to the Madison protests, it is well to remember that there are thousands of teachers in Wisconsin who haven't walked off their jobs, and there are millions of Wisconsin residents who aren't protesting, and who, in fact, voted for Governor Walker and the new State Senate precisely because they wanted them to rein in spending without raising Wisconsin's already too-high tax burden. The news media doesn't report on that "silent majority," but they are out there.
To put it in somewhat more concrete terms, if the news reports are accurate, something like 13,000 people came to Madison to protest yesterday. The news media calls these protests "massive" routinely, as shown by this Google screen shot.
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But guess how many people came to Green Bay to celebrate the Packers' Super Bowl parade less than two weeks ago? 50,000. These people are the silent majority in this state:
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