Pennsylvania state Senator Scott Wagner (R) this week compared labor unions to Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Putin, saying that like both of them, unions were all about "power and control."
Wagner said this, apparently with a straight face, and, one supposes, with an air of utter obliviousness, as Mr. Wagner must be under the assumption that corporations and wealthy individuals are striving for the purely altruistic reasons of making themselves richer whilst shitting upon the rest of society. And who knew that Hitler and Putin were such valiant fighters for better wages, better benefits, safer workplaces, and job security?
Somehow in my travels throughout my now fifty-five years on this planet, I must have missed the slew of Assholes 'r' Us franchises from which republicans have recruited so many of their leaders.
Peace,
emaycee
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Once upon a time, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about labor unions. He had been speaking to an old white guy, so needless to say, a Republican, about them. He told me he agreed with said old white guy about them, that they were fine in theory. But he didn't like that they had so much power.
ReplyDeleteSo I asked him why this old white guy was okay with management having so much power. He was stumped.
It's a fucking joke. Another bullshit line that Republicans pass off as truth. Labor unions, they say, shouldn't have so much power.
Yeah, we shouldn't put the power in the workers, the people. Too many people, like my friend, buy into this bullshit. It needs to stop. The idea that the workers, the people, shouldn't have the power is antidemocratic. It's antihuman. It's just wrong.