The leadership of organized labor has betrayed the working class for a
long, long, time. You would have to go back to the Great Depression era
to find any world shaking fervor there.
The union leaders invariably sniff out some " friend of labor " Democrat and -with little internal union democracy- strongly suggest - in a bullying tone- who the rank and file should vote for.
What have all these years of loyalty to the Democratic Party done for America's working and now mostly ruined middle class ?
The popularity of the anti-establishment presidential candidates, Republican Trump and Democrat Sanders, is a sure sign of a crisis of the capitalist two party system.
I can understand any rank and file union member who is inclined to vote for " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders. We do need a change
But I don't see Sanders even pushing Hillary slightly to the left. She is besotted and her fan club is besotted by neo-liberal identity politics. It is smarter at least to support Sanders until the bitter end - where he predictably endorses Hillary Clinton as the lesser evil.
With friends like the Clintons working class Americans need their own Labor Party- with a bold socialist agenda.
Ralph Nader is right. Both the Democratic and Republican parties serve -with different styles-Corporate America.
The union leaders invariably sniff out some " friend of labor " Democrat and -with little internal union democracy- strongly suggest - in a bullying tone- who the rank and file should vote for.
What have all these years of loyalty to the Democratic Party done for America's working and now mostly ruined middle class ?
The popularity of the anti-establishment presidential candidates, Republican Trump and Democrat Sanders, is a sure sign of a crisis of the capitalist two party system.
I can understand any rank and file union member who is inclined to vote for " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders. We do need a change
But I don't see Sanders even pushing Hillary slightly to the left. She is besotted and her fan club is besotted by neo-liberal identity politics. It is smarter at least to support Sanders until the bitter end - where he predictably endorses Hillary Clinton as the lesser evil.
With friends like the Clintons working class Americans need their own Labor Party- with a bold socialist agenda.
Ralph Nader is right. Both the Democratic and Republican parties serve -with different styles-Corporate America.
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