The problem here is that the labor unions are not the same as labor. In the US the unions are political action entities that connect with Democrats. And Democrats are the primary supporters of the globalist project that exports good American jobs and imports cheap non-union labor from their open borders position.
That is the disconnect in the political-media mythology related to the left and labor unions. Previously the Democrats were aligned with labor and the Republicans with business... primarily big business. Small business seemed split between the Democrats and Republicans. The big business, including banking and Wall Street, alignment has flipped to Democrats... with establishment Republicans holding on to some shreds of old industries like organic energy. Unions are still aligned with Democrats, but Democrat politics are generally against the interest of American labor. Also, small business is also under attack by Democrat policies.
People are waking up to this, and there is a shift of labor and small business looking to the new Republican party. Big business and union leadership are still married to Democrats.
I think the more interesting discussion would have been the disconnect between the left and working class they claim to represent, but whose members vote increasingly against the recommendations of union leadership.
It seems that many in the current labor movement earned a BA in Wokeism and are now outraged that plumb “save-the-world” jobs at the UN are hard to come by. The labor movement has a multitude of legitimate and egregious concerns, but “grownups” maybe be unwilling to look through all the Woke hysteria to see them.
Left vs. Right is a false dichotomy. While the terms may have meant something in the past, they are worse than useless today, and actually serve as a wedge to divide people by hoicking up controversial irrelevancies in lieu of a sincere discussion of where we want to go, and how we're going to get there, based on objective principles with demonstrable results.
The problem is deeper than ideological principles, which can change depending on circumstance. The one constant in human affairs is the urge to power, and the type of people that power attracts. So the question is not whether one believes in the ideology of Left or Right, but whether one recognizes how either can be used by power elites to gain control over ordinary people who have more practical things on their mind, like feeding their family and putting a roof over their head.
To put it bluntly, the issue is psychopathic elites and their servitors vs. everyone else. This real dichotomy has now been pushed to the forefront by the collision between psychopathic will to power vs. the material consequences of that impulse. I'm not offering a solution here, but until you can clearly state the problem the solution will always be out of reach.
The problem here is that the labor unions are not the same as labor. In the US the unions are political action entities that connect with Democrats. And Democrats are the primary supporters of the globalist project that exports good American jobs and imports cheap non-union labor from their open borders position.
That is the disconnect in the political-media mythology related to the left and labor unions. Previously the Democrats were aligned with labor and the Republicans with business... primarily big business. Small business seemed split between the Democrats and Republicans. The big business, including banking and Wall Street, alignment has flipped to Democrats... with establishment Republicans holding on to some shreds of old industries like organic energy. Unions are still aligned with Democrats, but Democrat politics are generally against the interest of American labor. Also, small business is also under attack by Democrat policies.
People are waking up to this, and there is a shift of labor and small business looking to the new Republican party. Big business and union leadership are still married to Democrats.
I think the more interesting discussion would have been the disconnect between the left and working class they claim to represent, but whose members vote increasingly against the recommendations of union leadership.
It seems that many in the current labor movement earned a BA in Wokeism and are now outraged that plumb “save-the-world” jobs at the UN are hard to come by. The labor movement has a multitude of legitimate and egregious concerns, but “grownups” maybe be unwilling to look through all the Woke hysteria to see them.
Left vs. Right is a false dichotomy. While the terms may have meant something in the past, they are worse than useless today, and actually serve as a wedge to divide people by hoicking up controversial irrelevancies in lieu of a sincere discussion of where we want to go, and how we're going to get there, based on objective principles with demonstrable results.
The problem is deeper than ideological principles, which can change depending on circumstance. The one constant in human affairs is the urge to power, and the type of people that power attracts. So the question is not whether one believes in the ideology of Left or Right, but whether one recognizes how either can be used by power elites to gain control over ordinary people who have more practical things on their mind, like feeding their family and putting a roof over their head.
To put it bluntly, the issue is psychopathic elites and their servitors vs. everyone else. This real dichotomy has now been pushed to the forefront by the collision between psychopathic will to power vs. the material consequences of that impulse. I'm not offering a solution here, but until you can clearly state the problem the solution will always be out of reach.
I'm generally in favour of unions but I find that they tend to have negative impacts that people don't tend to focus on.