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One of the reasons why Krugman is disliked by so many conservatives is that he describes reality better than most people and conservatives have a distaste for those who expose the myths that they use to hide reality from themselves and others.
The reality of the Wisconsin Governor's attack on selective public employee unions is purely political. The Governor believes that he can take advantage of the current economic and political environment to advance his career (he compared himself to Reagan when he broke the air traffic controller's strike). It also puts him in step with others in the GOP who view democratic leaning unions as the enemy. That is why he excluded GOP leaning police and fire unions from his attack. In general, conservatives who ignored the budget deficits created by the spend and borrow fiscal policies of Reagan and Bush, are using the fiscal crisis created by irresponsible bankers and government regulators to attack one of the counterweights to the power of the financial and political elite. A democratic society without checks and balances to powerful elites is democratic in name only. There are plenty of examples of such societies in other parts of the world that provide a good model for the GOP. Some are under attack by democratic movements in the Mid-East. There are, of course other countries that provide a bad model for the GOP. They include most of the democratic countries in Europe.
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