Is California next on the Koch brothers’ agenda? The Republicans will have 33 governors in office, and in 25 of those states, the Republicans will also control both the governorships and the legislations. The Democrats have six governors and legislations, and the rest of the states are politically divided.
Sam Lansing is chief operating officer at the Americans for Prosperity, a conservative super pac bankrolled by the Koch brothers, and he thinks now is the best opportunity to accomplish a lot of the big-ticket items in 10 to 15 states. People in these states will be steamrolled on policies, such as destroying unions, Social Security, Medicare, right to work laws, school vouchers to break the teachers’ union and private prisons, while giving tax breaks wealthy.
How long will it be before the GOP and the Koch brothers start in on California and New York, which will now be considered their holy grail for destruction. They decimated the unions in the birthplace of public unions, Wisconsin. If we, in these states, think it can’t happen to us just look at our new president. We did not see that coming either. If you think he’s on your side, you’d be sadly mistaken. He brings in foreign workers to work in his buildings so he doesn’t have to pay Americans a living wage. He’s an image maker, a con artist and an opportunist, not a diplomat, not a president and not a decent human being.
We must never forget that and not become apathetic. The Koch brothers, in a Grinch or Scrooge McDuck fashion, have a plan to finish off the remainder of the 99 percent, steal whatever little crumbs they have so they can have it all.
California and New York workers, especially union workers, must remain vigilant and thwart the GOP and Koch brothers’ attempt to conquer the last of the union strongholds.
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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