"An injury to one is an injury to all." That's how dairy farmer Tony Schultz ended his rousing speech at Saturday's "Tractorcade" in Madison Wisconsin, repeating the familiar slogan of the Wobblies. Upwards of 100,000 people rallied at the state Capitol to protest Gov. Scott Walker's union busting budget, the largest such demonstration thus far, and if you're wondering why a farmer was there leading the charge, you gotta give Schultz's speech a listen.

But Schultz wasn't just there to speak in support of public workers, who he emotionally described as "our friends and our neighbors and our family members." He was also there to make a passionate case for how the proposed budget cuts would devastate rural communities, particularly their public schools and their health care. Substitute "Basic Health" for "Badger Care," and he could've been giving this speech in Olympia.

Perhaps at some point more voters in rural America will wake up and figure out that they share more interests with urban workers than with the corporatist masters who seem intent on destroying the American middle class.