MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Hillary's Labor of Love?
By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 11:31am |Key details:
The endorsement, by the 1.3 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, enables Clinton to claim support from groups representing the majority of the nation’s 14.6 million union members....
...Sanders, by contrast, has been endorsed by only one national union — the 185,000-member National Nurses United ...
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by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 11:50am
The Union Management are lining up at the political feeding trough to secure their power and position but the Union Workers are and will continue to be trapped in the austerity and neoliberal train wreck that HRC will continue to champion.
The only choice the Union Workers have when they are herded into the voting pens is to choose a quick execution or a death by a thousand cuts.
VP Sanders offers little to these elite cliques so their 'love' is reserved for the real power broker although many of their charges may feel the Burn.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 1:21pm
As one article noted (WaPo? US News?), it doesn't matter what legislation anyone proposes as long as the GOP has a lock on the House.
What will make a difference is Administration support of laws & regulations. I don't see Hillary pulling the insulting anti-union stuff that say Rahm Emmanuel pulled, and much more likely to support card check & other initiatives, including aspects that say help female workers.
I think the supposed rank-and-file love for Bernie is a bit exaggerated, but am willing to be proven wrong with some meaningful stats or indicators.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 1:50pm
I didn't realize you were such a fantasist to believe a psychopath such as, vini vici morte, HRC has any real concept of law or regulation except in law and order to be imposed on others near and far.
In our postmodern world relativism and PR are the paint many people use to whitewash creatures such as the Clintons as they are elevated above mere humans by the cheering LOTE voters.
Democrat union voters are probably just as unlikely to exercise any moral or ethical metrics when supporting HRC and most of those who follow the Bern will fall in line behind his good friend and fellow smirking war hawk when he capitulates.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 3:04pm
I didn't realize you could turn a quip from a military engagement into a universal condemnation of someone. How illiberal of you.
Here's a rundown on Hillary's positions through the years on a number of topics, including an 85% rating by the AFL-CIO in 2003 and a number of pro-labor stances.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm
Here's a good summary on her dealings with tax issues, which doesn't strike me as near cozy with the way Wall Street would like. Maybe Bernie is better, but that's neither here nor there - it's a basic evaluation of reality. Blackwashing is just as bad as whitewashing.
If you want to play the knee-jerk she's-an-elitist-anti-law--Wall Street-corporatist on everything, well, I just don't have the inclination to waste my time playing pick-up-jax with you.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 4:04pm
Public displays of arrogance and viciousness are now mere 'quips' even when as in HRC's case it was only one of many displays of her disease but perhaps the most telling.
I understand it is difficult for you, with only diversion and defensiveness as tools, to justify jettisoning any basic principles so that supporting this type of authoritarian degeneration is seen and felt as progressive and humane.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 5:26pm
Since you spend the vast majority of your time engaged in "Public displays of arrogance and viciousness" one would think you would have a better understanding of what those words mean.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 6:21pm
Sounds like you're preparing for the UN. Might I suggest practicing Off Broadway for a bit? I hear New Haven has good stage trials, pun slightly intended.
BTW, I understand Hillary displayed her "disease" again in her 11 hour debriefing, with the impudence to laugh when it's only been 3 years since people died on her watch. And she wasn't even wearing a veil. Such shame.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 6:57pm
Thank you, Peter. I shall forthwith add "psychopath" to my list of hilariously hyperbolic whoppers used to describe Hillary. My list is growing but I'll try to make room for it. It's a keeper!
by Ramona on Sat, 10/24/2015 - 8:04pm