Did you know that the Wisconsin governor left his university in disgrace after committing fraud in a student government election and now does the bidding of the richest in the country. Worse yet, that playbook, endorsed by radical right-wing funders, is being used nationwide to solidify corporate rule.

In state after state, the blueprint is to take away the ability of the bottom 80% of the country to organize through labor and professional unions, so as to solidify control by those in the top 5% who have substantially increased their share of the wealth over the last twenty years.

There is now a tension, a tension that the oligarchy hopes it will win. The Koch brothers and there kind, Rupert Murdoch and his FOX Channel, ideologues and Limbaughs on the right-wing, and Wall Street and Banker fat-cats are betting that people will get tired, the rallies will fade away, voters will forget, workers will become afraid of losing the little they still have, and all will go back to “the new normal.”

This is a movement that began realizing we can’t rely on Obama and Reid. At best we can cheer the “Wisconsin 8.” For this is a movement of the majority. There are more workers than there are bosses.

It’s a movement that must sustain itself with the anger, frustration, heart, and soul that unites people, whether they consider themselves working or middle class. They are united in a fight, not against each other -- not straight vs. gay, white vs. people of color, or men vs. women -- but against those who are shifting the country’s wealth from all of its people to a select few who can only hide in their gated communities for so long before those who enable, and literally guard them, say: “No more.” - Gordon Clay