Imagine All The People

Via Media Matters, imagine if there was a state over the weekend where 30,000 people turned out to protest the government.  Imagine they marched on the state capitol building and peacefully but impressively called out the governor of that state for destroying their economy.

It happened over the weekend.  You didn't hear about it because they weren't Teabaggers.  They were union protestors in New Jersey, marching against GOP Gov. Chris Christie's massive state jobs cuts.

More than 30,000 angry New Jersey residents marched to the state capitol Saturday, delivering a blistering message to the governor in an effort to protect their turf and their paychecks.

At times resembling both a rock concert and a pep rally, more than 30,000 union employees and community activists gathered for a massive protest at the capitol to blast the governor.

"He has absolutely forfeited every one of his promises," teacher Anna Kimerly said.

It's a budget they say cuts to the bone.

"Fifty thousand parents will be denied health coverage," Bruce Davison said.

The emotions matched the size of the biggest crowd state police had seen in years, with signs calling Governor Chris Christie the biggest loser, a liar, and someone who duped them.

"We ask the governor, while school system is trying to teach diversity and anti-bullying, to stop being the biggest bully in the state," James Harris, of the NAACP, said. 

But you didn't hear about it because all these teachers, health care workers, NAACP members and working class Americans don't count as "Real Americans", not to the GOP, not to the Village, and never to the Teabaggers.  These are the people who are supposed to suffer so that Republicans can have more tax cuts.

If a tenth of these people had shown up as Teabaggers, it would have been national front page news.