Corporate Strategy of Divide and Conquer Pits Union Against Union
David Koch and his corporate allies are investing in far more than a single election. Their goal is nothing less than to destroy organized labor. From the inside out. Their strategy is to defuse the simmering class war by turning public and private union members against each other in a classic case of divide and conquer. Corporate America wants them to forget fighting corporate greed and set their sights on each other instead.
If the results in Wisconsin are any indication, it's working like a charm - especially now that the Occupy movement, which did so much to raise awareness of the true corporate agenda, has begun to fade into the background. ...
Progressives can't expect to heal the breach between public and private labor by acting as though it doesn't exist. The only path to neutralizing Koch and his allies is to expose their motives and lay bare their strategy. Then the left must direct private union energy - and anger - back where it belongs: against the corporations that put us all in this mess to begin with. Against Koch and the rest of the 1 percent.
A lot of people are complaining that corporate money bought an election in Wisconsin. But it's buying a lot more than that - specifically, a supply of economic slave labor for years to come.
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