The left doesn’t much care for democ racy — when it loses.
Case in point: Wisconsin and the recent uproar over passage of a law curbing public-employee union power.
The left lost on two levels there:
* In November, when the people elected a GOP governor and legislature.
* During the winter, when that legislature — despite an embarrassing public tantrum by Democratic lawmakers and endless union demonstrations — adopted the curbs.
Now they’re pushing a soulmate candidate, JoAnne Kloppenburg, in an election tomorrow for state Supreme Court — expecting, not unreasonably, that she’ll provide the deciding vote to strike down the new law.
She hasn’t said that in so many words, but her supporters make no secret of their belief she’ll do just that.
“This is a direct assault on judicial independence,” says her rival, conservative incumbent Justice David Prosser.
So much for the democratic process.
But, of course, none of this is unique to Wisconsin. Here in New York, liberal shakedown artists just last week tried to disrupt legislative proceedings in an attempt to keep the budget from passing.
Their ploy failed. Alas, a more insidious effort a few years back — which used New York’s notoriously liberal courts to override the Legislature’s school-funding decisions — didn’t.
That case, brought by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, imposed wholly unaffordable spending mandates on Albany, rocking the state fisc and helping to open multibillion-dollar budget gaps for years to come.
Over in Jersey, meanwhile, a judge last month ruled that Gov. Chris Christie’s budget similarly failed to spend enough on education — even though that state is broker than broke.
Nor are US leftists alone in their unwillingness to accept democratic outcomes they abhor. Look, for instance, at last week’s riots in London, where splinter groups from a massive, union-led protest against budget cuts attacked banks and stores and fought with police.
It’s scary stuff — not just because of the violence it can spur, but also because of the kind of life that can be expected when mobs, rather than democratically established law, rule the day.
Even liberals should fear that.
