The strategy of the GOP oligarchies is to control the governments from the local level to the state to the federal level and the U.S. Supreme Court. Their biggest and most effective weapon is money, which they have the most of, and everyone knows, unfortunately, money equals power. The 99 percent working people have more people than the 1 percent, which means the Have Nots have their own kind of power.
The people’s only chance to add money to their strategy is through unions and their members paying dues and this is why the GOP is so hell bent on destroying the means of unions collecting dues from union members. Using tactics like Right to Work laws in states and laws that let workers be in a union without paying dues, yet receiving all the union benefits. So the union members who do pay their dues are supporting the benefits of the non-paying members. It is easy to see how this is working out for the money strategy on both sides—union and GOP.
Right to Work has nothing to do with the right to work, it is just about money, and workers not having to pay dues, which would give unions some money to add to their only power—people. This is one of the reasons for the $15 to $18 an hour minimum wage increase needs to happen. Not only would this be good for the workers and boost the consumer-driven capitalist economy system, which spending represents about 67 percent. It would also bring more union members into the people’s fold to increase the people and money for a better chance of winning the inequality war between the Have Alls and Have Nots. You must understand yourself and understand your enemy.
Remember this prime truth that all evil is caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. Power also comes from organization of people who have religious ideas and want power to propagate their beliefs. They form a church of people to follow their political ideas and want the power to put them into practice. They organize and call it a religion, but it’s really a political party.
Organization equals people which equals power which equals money which equals winning.
The $15 to $18 an hour minimum wage, free education, free healthcare and hopefully a pension for when you’re old and worn from making money for the 1 percent. Can you see why the oligarchies do not want you to have all these things? If you had all this, not only would it close the inequality gap, but it would also make you independent from their abuses as your boss.
Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...
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