Anti-union GOP

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(04-21-2024, 06:43 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Most of us were actually critiquing the Democrats on how they abandoned the ideas of the New Deal in favor of neo-liberalism, explaining how it gave Trump the in that he had.

I grew up in a Democrat home that voted all across the board.

My dad was in a Union until the early 80's when good old St. Ron came along and a group "investors" bought the company, broke the union, consolidated the plants and stole the pension money.

I was 12.

I grew up from that point being strongly anti-union because of how they just folded over and the leaders took what they could get and screwed the workers.

I have never been part of a union.  The closest I came was working in the media but I was small town and didn't have to and then I got out quickly.

Then I grew up. Now, at 54, I believe (and have believed for a long time) we must have strong unions to push back against 45+ years of Reaganomics destroying everything but the upper class.  The examples that I personally know of where non-union employees are treated well vs the places where they are treated as little better than slaves fortunate to have been picked to work is too overwhelming for me personally to feel any other way.

So did the Democrats desert the unions and me?  I don't know.  All I know is in my life one side as at a minimum given lip service to them and the other has bashed them as anti-american...somehow.