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I dunno, looks a lot like good cop-bad cop tag team to me. They both do harm to the American worker by supporting different aspects of corporate interests. In
by mc32 4y ago
I dunno, looks a lot like good cop-bad cop tag team to me.
They both do harm to the American worker by supporting different aspects of corporate interests. In the end they are both unfriendly to the American worker. Bona fide support to the American worker by the Dems ended some time back in the 80's when they saw the windfall Repubs were getting from corporate. I know it hangs on like a cheap suit that the Dems are unequivocally in support of labor as Bernie used to be in the 80s but it isn't so any more.
- syzarian 4y agoYes, both are “bad” but one party is much worse. I don’t vote since in my view neither party supports workers but I’m not under a delusion that both are equally bad. Personally, I think things must get much worse in America before things can get better.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoIs that why only Democrat led states have higher minimum wages, non compete bans, paid parental leave, pay transparency, higher unemployment benefits, and other worker friendly policies? I cannot remember the last time a Republican led state passed worker friendly legislation.
- mc32 4y agoThat's the "good cop" play. In the meantime, things that would have allowed wages and salaries to keep up with inflation, have been ignored in favor of international trade agreements, outsourcing and importation of cheap labor. It's not that the above have no place in an economy, they do, but they need to be measured and they need to ensure the benefit is to the American worker, not American corps or foreign labor. Give me Bernie Sanders of the 1980s, I'll take the deal.