Paul Krugman: Americans Don’t Hate Unions

[babylonsister]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/americans-dont-hate-unions/

March 1, 2011, 8:30 am
Americans Don’t Hate Unions



The new poll reported in this morning’s Times will, I suspect, come as a shock to many political commentators. Quite a few news analyses of the assault on public-sector workers have simply assumed that the move was a political winner, with little if any thought given to the possibility that the general public wasn’t actually ready to go along. But whaddya know: while people don’t necessarily love unions — hey, I personally don’t necessarily love unions — most people apparently see them as having a legitimate role.

Again, I’m having Iraq flashbacks: there was a prolonged period when the inside-the-Beltway view was that only crackpots believed that Bush had misled us into war, even as polling indicated a substantial fraction, and eventually a majority, of the public already believed just that:

[Kennah]

1. There is only one union I hate ...

... and that's the union between government and corporations.

[fishwax]

2. k/r

:kick:

[ThomCat]

3. It seems that being inside the beltway makes you ignorant

of what the entire rest of the nation believes. You become so isolated within an echo-chamber, that the echos become reality. Is anyone surprised that this is true?