The party switch happened a long time ago. Yet we are still fed the same worker vs. bosses fairy tale by the ignorant media and their puppet masters in academia. Unions represent a low single digit percentage of the working class out side government. They stopped trying to organize real workers 50 or more years ago. They simply see the n…
The party switch happened a long time ago. Yet we are still fed the same worker vs. bosses fairy tale by the ignorant media and their puppet masters in academia. Unions represent a low single digit percentage of the working class out side government. They stopped trying to organize real workers 50 or more years ago. They simply see the numbers of Amazon workers and salivate over the fees and friendly headlines. The politicians take money from both sides. There is no one left to represent the majority of workers. The Unions just want a piece of the Amazon action that politicians have been getting for more than 20 years. The journalists act as though this is meaningful to the average citizen. It's not. They know that their costs will go up either way. The money to pay off the politicians and fend off the unions has to come from somewhere. To paraphrase Dylan 'the politicians don't need you and man they expect the same.'
For most of my youth the unions were closed shops to any one who wasn't related to a union member. They could have opened their schools, which are excellent, to all and garnered some loyalty and skilled members; but original thinking is not expected or much allowed in most union halls. They could have encouraged more technical training be funded by all the politicians they own; but they didn't. They never will. Because that would be competition for them. Also because they have more money now than they can legally handle.
The average worker and skilled tradesman has no use for unions and unions have no use for them.
The majority of workers were abandoned by the unions and their politician pets decades ago. Their votes have been going to conservative candidates for decades. Trump just formalized the arrangement.
The Democrat party platform is no sane persons wish list. Many of the contractors I know are competing with crews of under paid, hard working, legal and illegal immigrants. Some have stopped competing because they can't afford to do what they love anymore. The democrat J-School grads tell them to learn to compete. They tell them snidely to learn to code then get panty-twisted angry when they are told the same after their phony baloney leftist broad sheet is closes.
Most article on this topic act like this party switch is just starting to happen; showing how out of touch the average self described "well educated" journalist is. BTW the average plumber, electrician, carpenter and tier 3 IT guys and gals do more logical thinking, troubleshooting and math in their heads in one day than the average soft science, "well educated", college graduate does in a year. So please find another therm to describe the former.
The party switch happened a long time ago. Yet we are still fed the same worker vs. bosses fairy tale by the ignorant media and their puppet masters in academia. Unions represent a low single digit percentage of the working class out side government. They stopped trying to organize real workers 50 or more years ago. They simply see the numbers of Amazon workers and salivate over the fees and friendly headlines. The politicians take money from both sides. There is no one left to represent the majority of workers. The Unions just want a piece of the Amazon action that politicians have been getting for more than 20 years. The journalists act as though this is meaningful to the average citizen. It's not. They know that their costs will go up either way. The money to pay off the politicians and fend off the unions has to come from somewhere. To paraphrase Dylan 'the politicians don't need you and man they expect the same.'
For most of my youth the unions were closed shops to any one who wasn't related to a union member. They could have opened their schools, which are excellent, to all and garnered some loyalty and skilled members; but original thinking is not expected or much allowed in most union halls. They could have encouraged more technical training be funded by all the politicians they own; but they didn't. They never will. Because that would be competition for them. Also because they have more money now than they can legally handle.
The average worker and skilled tradesman has no use for unions and unions have no use for them.
The majority of workers were abandoned by the unions and their politician pets decades ago. Their votes have been going to conservative candidates for decades. Trump just formalized the arrangement.
The Democrat party platform is no sane persons wish list. Many of the contractors I know are competing with crews of under paid, hard working, legal and illegal immigrants. Some have stopped competing because they can't afford to do what they love anymore. The democrat J-School grads tell them to learn to compete. They tell them snidely to learn to code then get panty-twisted angry when they are told the same after their phony baloney leftist broad sheet is closes.
Most article on this topic act like this party switch is just starting to happen; showing how out of touch the average self described "well educated" journalist is. BTW the average plumber, electrician, carpenter and tier 3 IT guys and gals do more logical thinking, troubleshooting and math in their heads in one day than the average soft science, "well educated", college graduate does in a year. So please find another therm to describe the former.
Very well said.