2017 Is Watergate in Reverse

Without the "Progressive Marxist Left", you'd still be working 16-h shifts down the coal mine and be paid in company store bonds.

 

The swamp was draining when the Democrats lost control of everything. Just a few more seats to go.

 

Hmm...., that's exactly what my father used to tell me. He worked all his life under the fist of the CIO, TWU.... Seems The majority of my life I worked without the benefit of a union. Yes, IMO, the union would have kept me from achieving my goals and advancement in corporate life.

 

Slavery is abolished. Workers gained a life and a bit of dignity as well. Regulations and unions made sure of it.

Turns out your father was right - bless him. Like it or not, your country became what it is both because of both left and right currents that people balanced, trying to reach an acceptable middle. You cut either one or the other, and you are back to dystopia.

Poeple, extremists that is, who want to eliminate either one or the other of these ideologies might as well chop off one of their hands to remain pure.

 

You do have a point there, except when the unions, turn to violence to prove their point(s). Hoffa and Yablonski assassinated by their own, or the Matewan Massacre.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau the median salary in the United States was $56,000 in 2015, compared to your average rank and file union worker median salary 0f $41,500. Lest you forget that unions have always been closely tied to the Communist Party.

 

That union provided your father with the means to get YOUR education