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Grumpy Ol' Retired Union Man

Indulge an old union man, but I feel like I need to get some things off my chest that are irritating me. For instance, retired union members who vote for republicans. Why would you vote for a party that one: hates unions and two: hates workers? Why do some males, because they’re really not emotionally developed, drive around in large, raised pick-up trucks with large trump and the American flags waving. Please look up the American flag etiquette because there is one and you’re violating it. And, why do you feel the need to rev your diesel engines like some obnoxious middle schooler? What’s with morbidly obese males carrying lots of guns like they could actually operate the weapons if in a stressful fight or flight situation. Playing Army with your friends is not the same thing as being in an actual gunfight so stop trying to intimidate people by wearing every gun you own. All you’re doing is showing the world you’re a gullible trump supporting low IQ uneducated wannabe. These are the ones who claim to hate government yet are first in line to receive Social Security or Medicare or Affordable Care Act, which, by the way, is Obama Care, or food stamps or disability checks or whatever “government handout” there is. Why do retired union workers, ex-military and government employees who act like, “I got mine” so feck the rest of you who don’t. Most of these gun toting he men are sitting around waiting for some type of shooting to start a war with a leader like the coward trump to lead them into battle just he did in the Vietnam War with his five deferments and again when he incited them to attack the Capitol Building to save his ass. Yes, I know this blog is supposed to be about unions, but a lot of our members have drank the kool-aid and gone over to the dark side for whatever reason. They’ve most likely made some bad decisions and rather than accept the fact that they did, they’d rather blame others like minorities, the government, Democrats, the dog, you name it it’s someone else’s fault. Maybe they watch too much fox news, listen to cranks on the radio or internet being paid to lie to them. Part of the responsibility for union members engaging in this self-destructive behavior belongs with the unions for not spending time at union meeting teaching about union history, how workers fought and died to unionize, what we have to do to keep what we’ve earned and how unions make the employees lives and their families better. Unions used to take the time to educate their members on these things. Voting and supporting republicans will not keep our way of life nor will your guns for when the gop is successful in destroying our democracy, your guns and devotion won’t mean a thing to them. The gop wants authoritarian rule at your expense. I’m just a retired guy with my pensions and my guns and I live in one of the best counties of the world with the best Democratic government and I will do all I can to keep it this way by supporting people who support unions and the working class people and it sure as hell is not any gop candidate.

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