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I'm a union worker and I'm dismayed at the amount of my union brothers who vote for pieces of shit like this. Who buy into their bullshit and actually think that conservatives will help them. Talk about voting against your own interests. If you're in a union, voting for conservatives is just stupid
Union worker myself. I am also baffled by the strong conservative undercurrent in my fellows' views. Don't know how they sustain it.
Bigotry, selfishness, severe lack of intelligence and or basic reasoning skills. I can keep going.
A big part of it is the view that the left "gives money away". Union jobs are typically labor with long hous and their view is that "I work hard for the money I eared and my taxes go to the lazy".
I think that's bullshit obviously, but that is a pretty common sentiment from my experience.
They work long hours but also live in a society. So do they not like roads to drive on? Or having a military? Or public schools? Or libraries? You know. Stuff that benefits them?
You give them way too much credit. They look for negativity and outrage and persecution in everything, not reason and investment and public benefit. To them the biggest danger to the American economy is liberals taking the money from the working folk and giving it to the welfare queens to cover their Lexus leases or whatever.
What’s that you say? The government is taking the middle class’s money to subsidize wealthy people not paying taxes? Why are you so JeaLoUS? Why do you want to PuNiSh SuCcEsS rather than rewarding it, comrade? Now stop trying to give free food to growing children who didn’t earn it you monster!
Now that you say that, yeah, I do hear that kinda shit from my older and, ironically, youngest coworkers. I've given up arguing with them.
Please keep arguing with them
If Trump wins i will need to flee the country for my family’s safety. And i would rather not.
Stupidity combined "fuck you, I've got mine."
God, imagine if Biden had backed the railroad unions... Ahh, what might have been.
The stupidity of that decision still amazes me to this day. "Railroad safety and efficacy during the shipping crisis? No! Let the monopolistic railroads regulate themselves, fuck their workers!"
He did. After blocking the strikes his administration stepped in to negotiate for the unions and got them most of what they wanted.
I guess I meant fully backed? I'm referring to the thing Biden didn't do when he had the chance, to prove how pro-union he is.
What thing?
Thing that he didn't do was fully back the union in the way that I meant. No schedule changes, no predictability, no sick days. No alarm at what is apparently a nationally vital resource being run poorly by people whose sole motivation is shareholder profits.
The concessions they got were paltry in comparison and it's honestly fucking shameful that we treat people this way.
There was a period in the 90s when Democrats took the DLC Neoliberal turn, basically abandoned the labor movement, and made it very easy for Republicans to run as White Nationalist labor-ish sounding candidates.
But ten years ago, you'd get some Joe the Plumber asshole whining about how he can't afford to drive to work because gasoline taxes are too expensive.
Now you've got this Yaley prick telling Boston Firefighters they are the Sad Virgins rather than the Woke Chads, because they don't hate migrants enough.
Karl Rove is rolling in his pile of rent boys right now.