- 12 Oct 2021 03:03
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Not so long ago, the (US) Democrat Party used to be the party of working class people and worker's unions, supporting worker's standing up for the individual rights against employers by staging strikes to disrupt the business.
But now there is a situation were that is totally flipped around.
Working-Class Americans Are Standing Up for Themselves—and the Left Is Denouncing Them | Opinion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ ... d=msedgntp
Could this be yet another sign of the beginning of a reorientation in politics? (A so-called "Barry Goldwater moment") With Trump's first presidential campaign, large swaths of the working class (especially in the Rust Belt region) threw their support to him.
Is this a sign that the Democrat Party position is becoming too elitist and decadent? (decadent on numerous social issues, while ignoring the core of what they previously held as core values)
Numerous workers in the transportation sector are going on strike because their employers are demanding all their workers have to get vaccinated.
Twenty of thirty years ago this would have been clearly seen as a case of worker exploitation, worker's rights being trampled on by big employers who have most of the power in the relationship.
So one might expect it would be the Democrats who would be the ones to stand up for these workers? No, the total opposite.
But now there is a situation were that is totally flipped around.
Working-Class Americans Are Standing Up for Themselves—and the Left Is Denouncing Them | Opinion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ ... d=msedgntp
Could this be yet another sign of the beginning of a reorientation in politics? (A so-called "Barry Goldwater moment") With Trump's first presidential campaign, large swaths of the working class (especially in the Rust Belt region) threw their support to him.
Is this a sign that the Democrat Party position is becoming too elitist and decadent? (decadent on numerous social issues, while ignoring the core of what they previously held as core values)
Numerous workers in the transportation sector are going on strike because their employers are demanding all their workers have to get vaccinated.
Twenty of thirty years ago this would have been clearly seen as a case of worker exploitation, worker's rights being trampled on by big employers who have most of the power in the relationship.
So one might expect it would be the Democrats who would be the ones to stand up for these workers? No, the total opposite.