thanks for the history lessons. i live in a very democratic city, a city with a history of hotbed unionism.
- as your source stated; 'when obama had control of congress'. as your source stated, obama did for awhile, and obamacare was passed, as mentioned in your source. he burned all his political capital on his health plan and the rest is history. the subsequent mid-terms, the gop won back many seats and any pro-union legislation went out the window. awwwww...that always happens. ok, next time, i'll vote again for a democrat. we'll get 'em next time.
- don't make this, as it appears you are...that i'm trying to say the republicans are labor's friends. i have said that the gop serves it's core constituency impeccably. the elite and corporate america. the democrats have shifted away from us, onto social politics/identity politics.
that was their choice. i know my local presidents meet with members of congress and i know the meetings go very well, for the most part. lots of secrecy about the tpp though...
in the meantime, since the democrats have dived head-first into identity politics, you can now drive coast to coast across the usa through only red counties and those gop representatives view labor as domestic economic terrorists.
so, i say, thank you, democrats, for your dip-$hit platforms that have turned much of the nation against you and by consequence, strengthened the wealthy and corporate america against us, in labor.
