If you’re looking for an elected Virginian tawdry enough to
back the anti-union, anti-fair wage Republican governor from Wisconsin, Scott
Walker, look no further than our own Attorney General (AG) Ken Cuccinelli.[1]
I know, shocking news.
On Wednesday, Virginia’s AG urged his supporters (yes, he
has supporters) to add to Gov. Scott Walker’s war chest to help the embattled
governor survive a recall attempt headed by the Democratic Party and unions in
Wisconsin, among others.[2]
Cuccinelli’s request comes as one of the few political moves
that this tea-party favorite[3]
has made outside of the state of Virginia. Until Wednesday, Cuccinelli has
largely saved his “political capital” for political races inside the
commonwealth.
Clearly, then, not only does Cuccinelli have wider political
ambitions, he also thinks that he can project his political influence to other
areas in the country. Not one to use moderate language, Cuccinelli said that
the race in Wisconsin “will be a clash of political forces of titanic
proportions that will affect how (and whether) others in politics will
meaningfully take on our biggest challenges.”
This time around, the AG may not be too far off the mark.
Whatever the result turns out to be in the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin, it
will send shock waves across the country that may or may not hinder unions and
a large portion of the middle class from slipping down the economic latter.[4]
For the Cuccinelli’s of America, they may truly think that
their views preserve economic and, thus, individual freedom. But what their
political views and policies ultimately end up serving are the powerful elites
in society who see a lack of red-tape as a green light for even greater
concentrations of wealth.
That is, government can limit and/or create individual
freedom. However, over the last hundred years, government activism has helped
more Americans gain greater individual freedom, not vice versa.
The Cuccinelli’s of the country, then, are elite cogs who
serve those in society least in need of service.
No comments:
Post a Comment