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Why not? Governments routinely propose policies that are clearly “too far” and then “compromise” to their actual goals — eg, restrictions on civil rights. Why
by zmgsabst 4y ago
Why not?
Governments routinely propose policies that are clearly “too far” and then “compromise” to their actual goals — eg, restrictions on civil rights.
Why wouldn’t the same tactic work for activists?
- AmericanChopper 4y agoIf you’re trying to promote an idea that the public is largely disinterested in, then putting forward a strawman argument for it yourself is only going to empower its detractors.
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoThis is exactly the tactic unions always used. Probably one of the causes of unions' global demise are their overtly unreslistic campaigns.
- hnbad 4y agoI'm sure that demise has nothing to do with the change from unions literally fighting armed strike breakers on the streets to unions being heavily regulated bureaucratic entities that are on first name terms with the corporate owners that used to hire the armed strike breakers. By legalizing narrow avenues for union conduct, we have also heavily disincentivized any behavior outside those avenues. The "fat cat" union reps that live off your dues without contributing anything meaningful to your rights are ultimately an intentional creation of this de-radicalization. Incidentally the Red Scare helped quite a bit by making unions scared of seeming "too leftist" when the existence of unions itself is born out of a leftist understanding of class conflict (not "class" as in how much money you have but "class" as in whether you have to work for a living or people pay you for what you already own).