Come Saturday Morning: The News from Lakes Wobegon and Monona

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http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/19/come-saturday-morning-the-news-from-lakes-wobegon-and-monona/

By: Phoenix Woman Saturday March 19, 2011 8:20 am

To freely paraphrase Bruce Catton, from his description in Glory Road of the charge of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg:

…And it now suddenly seemed that the whole class war had come to a focus in this snowy heartland, with a few thousand score Midwesterners trading their livelihoods and lives for the time needed to expose the treacheries of their billionaire-backed foes to the public’s gaze and the action of the law…

In the Upper Midwest, the past few weeks have been pivotal. There are times when it seems that there are so many fights going on that one doesn’t know which ones to join, and then there are times when it becomes clear that one key fight, one key battle, has implications for the future of our nation, if not the world.