The unions are dead, they just don’t know it yet.

In the current battles in NJ and WI, the unions have picked a fight with governors who finaly have the cajones to stand up to them. As a result, the public is finaly seeing what unions are about – outragous entitlements to public workers at the expense of the taxpayers and bankrupt budgets.

And now things get worse for the unions. First, they get exposed for what they are (they aren’t for education or students; they’re for fat paychecks and benefits). Second, they get exposed in new media for what they are – violent thugs. Third, we get a bonus because the democrats and the left wing media are associating themselves with the unions’ cause.

As a bonus of the quickly approaching “end of the line” for public unions in the US, we get the icing on the cake – independent voters will take out their displeasure on democrats in the voting booth, and will further the decline of left wing media (network news and newspapers).

We’re winning bigger than we could have imagined, even after “just” winning the house. Our state leaders (at least some of them) are showing the way. If a leader stands up to the pressure of the media and the unions, people will learn the truth.

All of this has washed into a perfect storm against the unions, both in terms of PR and actual legislation. I expect the best is yet to come (more states being emboldened, as well as a national level sentiment to outright discard unions both public and private).

They’re dying as a movement worldwide (it doesn’t work).

The Soviet Union is still corrupt, but communism has given way to a mix of mob run capitalism and socialism overseen by a corrupt parlimentary system. Russia remains very dangerous (more dangerous than I expect most people realize), but it is a shadow of the former USSR.

China remains communist, but an incredible amount of the country is following the lead of Hong Kong. China is still far behind, and far from free, but they are catching up in terms of technology. More of their people are waking up too, and revolution won’t be far behind (or a rocky transition). The only true communist countries left are dead in the water – Cuba (they won’t last) and N. Korea (literaly starving to death).

There will always be unions, but unions as we know them are in their last throes.

Just as we fought Communism before, the next battle is radical Islam. Before the communists it was the facist socialists (nazis). Before that, we saw republics against monarchies (the 19th and 18th centuries). We can keep finding old enemies from before then with different names. But our fight against communism is almost complete as we’ve won the global war, and we now fight off the last vestiges of communism (their proxies the unions). As we move ahead, I think we’ll fight radical Islam, both on a global level (military and terror) and local (sharia law, multi-culturalism, etc).

Like with war on communism, we’ll have to clean up some areas in our own country long after the big war is won. We won WW2, and only a few radical groups remain to represent nazis, a shadow of the former selves worthy only of laughter. Unions are similar violent shadows of communism and will be the subject of laughter soon too. When Radical Islam is finaly driven from the middle east (and some major act of terror, perhaps nuclear, will bring us to going all out to end radical Islam) we’ll still have pockets of radical groups to clean up.

I remember growing up with communism and unions and thinking they would always be here. I imagine we’ll think the same way about radical Islam someday as well.