Be careful what you wish for....

[hal2kilo]

Seems today's union members are their own worst enemies.

To me, this started with the Teamsters and Nixon. Guess what was the main motivation. Race.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Yes to be clear the Democrats achieved their Congressional majorities back in the day through a bargain where southern Democrats agreed to go along with northern Democrats' economic policy agenda in exchange for northern Democrats protecting southern Democrats' efforts at perpetuating a racist apartheid regime. As the power and number of the northern liberals increased, they eventually didn't need to support the southern Democrats' racism anymore and ditched it. Then the racist southern Democrats switched to the Republican Party, which welcomed their racism.

To be fair, it was a little more that they were forced to drop the Southern racism and less that they just discarded it out of lack of necessity. It took the Civil Rights Movement for them to actually do that, and frankly if JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr hadn't been assassinated, I'm not sure that we would have seen things actually change, but those were enough to get most Americans to realize that oh, we really do need to address this hatred. Racism is unfortunately too deeply seeded in America (that's not "both sides!"-ing it, its just saying that while conservatives definitely are much worse about it, there's too high of prevalence across the spectrum of America's culture that has partaken in and even to this day still supports in some manner, bigotry especially racism and sexism).

 

[Puffnstuff]

Racism is unfortunately too deeply seeded in America (that's not "both sides!"-ing it, its just saying that while conservatives definitely are much worse about it, there's too high of prevalence across the spectrum of America's culture that has partaken in and even to this day still supports in some manner, bigotry especially racism and sexism).

That is very true. I've seen it come from many different directions in my day and I don't believe that we'll ever really be free of it.

 

[Jhhnn]

To me, this started with the Teamsters and Nixon. Guess what was the main motivation. Race.

They endorsed Reagan. It was hard for them not to after Carter slammed it up their ass with trucking deregulation. Then Ronnie took over & gave them a royal rogering they'll never forget.

 

[Muse]

Don't kill their dreams of winning the lottery someday.

I won't go there. Have never bought a lotto ticket, never will.

 

[DrDoug]

Dead wrong. The GOP has been anti-union since the Great Depression.

You are looking at party positions and not the actual votes by members. Quite a few post WWII Republicans came to embrace unions, albeit for a brief time (until their new southern members came to the party). It's like conservatives hating NAFTA while ignoring the fact that NAFTA was a conservative bill, passed by conservative Democrats and Republicans and signed by a Democrat president.

The parties then were largely a distraction from what was actually going on, unlike the Republican party of today.