The anti-union-right wingers have capitalized on how to vilify any one who stands in their way to get richer and gain more power. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan succeeded in making liberals feel ashamed of the word “liberal” and fearful of being associated with socialism. When that worked so well, the GOP started vilifying the word “union” in as many ways as unions drive up the costs of construction, that unions are just corporations and all union leaders’ want is your money in the form of dues. This effort worked so well they convinced unsuspecting workers to vote against their own best interests.
Today, the workers are starting to see through all the rhetoric of the anti-working establishment. The teachers have started a new trend by winning higher wages and other benefits. Now, there are others feeling like they can win higher wages, such as $15 to $24 an hour. This will, in turn, be a good thing for elections turn outs to put the right people in office who will support workers, workers rights and needs. Just because a candidate has a “D” by their name doesn’t mean they support workers. Workers fought and won in 1920s so called the Gilded Age when all was stacked against workers and I believe that the workers of the 1900s to 2000s will win in the fight of this second Gilded Age.
The progressive agenda must rise to the challenge to update and own liberalism by supporting the traditional negative rights represented in the first ten amendments of the Constitution with a set of positive rights. We will argue that without a living wage, adequate housing, effective healthcare and basic education.
The traditional negative rights have no real substance so the question is, “Are you for the workers who want a better life and support the 5Gs: good health, good jobs, good schools, good families and good neighborhoods?”
If so, vote and vote smart, and do not listen to what some of the talking heads who are paid by think tanks or radio station or television station owned by a corporation, such as Sinclair, that is anti-union and anti-workers.
It’s time to pick a side. You want to have and keep unions with good wages and pensions, then it’s time to pick a side. You want to keep Social Security for yourself and family, it is time to pick a side. You want to get or keep Medicare and Obama’s Affordable Care Act, then it’s time to pick a side. It is us against the billionaires. The very rich got that way off the backs of workers, and now want to strip everything away from those workers. It’s time to pick a side. The very rich can buy countries, then make the people get on their hands and knees and grovel and beg for scrapes that usually go into the dumpster. It’s time to pick a side. Is this what we want for our family and our future? It’s time to pick a side. Get ready to fight for you and your families’ lives. There is no middle ground with these greedy people for they want it all—all the money—all the power—all the land so where does this leave us when they have all the commons, like water, land and airways? It’s time to pick...
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