If you've been following the situation in Madison, WI, you are aware that the GOP corporatist governor is a threat to American democracy.

What we're witnessing in Wisconsin is "we the people" fighting against corporate control of the state.

As Wasserman and Fitrakis write at CommonDreams.com:   "The escalating confrontations in Wisconsin and Ohio are ultimately about preventing the United States from becoming a full-on fascist state. 

"The stakes could not be higher---or more clear. 

"As defined by its inventor, Benito Mussolini, fascism is "corporate control of the state." There are ways to beat around the Bush---Paul Krugman has recently written about "oligarchy"---but it's time to end all illusions and call what we now confront by its true name. 

"The fights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and in numerous other states are about saving the last shreds of American democracy."

And Stanley Kutler at Truthdig states:

"There is a kernel of truth in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s claim of a “budget shortfall” of $137 million. But Walker, a Republican, failed to tell the state that less than two weeks into his term as governor, he, with his swollen Republican majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature, pushed through $117 million in tax breaks for business allies of the GOP. There is your crisis.

"The state Legislature’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau—Wisconsin’s equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office and a refuge for professional expertise and nonpartisanship—warned Walker and the Legislature that the measure would create a budget gap. There is your shortfall—and not one resulting from established public employee benefits. Before the tax giveaways, the fiscal agency predicted a surplus for the state.

"Now the governor has offered a proposal simple and clear in its intent, and patently dishonest. Walker wants state workers to contribute to their pension fund and is calling for an increase in their payments for medical insurance. Make no mistake: The governor’s “budget repair bill” has little to do with a budget shortfall and everything to do with breaking unions, starting with public employees and then perhaps moving on to others as well.

"Walker himself precipitated the “budget crisis,” necessitating a “repair bill” that gave him and his allies what they really wanted. The governor pursues an agenda backed by the tea party’s financial angels. Public employees and other workers down the line will pay the freight for such folly. The governor lies."

Hosni Walker is funded by the Koch Bros. and is following their "how to eviscerate unions" playbook,

Meanwhile Walker also plans a "firesale of WI state assets using no bid contracts and blatant cronyism, invoking the rallying cry of what's good for the Koch Bros. is good for Wisconsin."

The reality is that the Madison protests are about union busting, not the budget, as a GOP governor attempts to create a permanent corporate controlled government. 

The US appears to be heading towards a "third world style oligarchy"