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Buddy_Gilapagos
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"How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions?"


  

          

I get how they turn the masses on Big Government. Big Government = hand outs to black and brown people.

But unions? It seems to me working class white folks would have a natural affinity to unions.

Never figured out how Reagan firing the Air Traffic Control Unionist made him a hero and not villianize him among the working class folks.

What am I missing?

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How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions? [View all] , Buddy_Gilapagos, Sun Feb-01-15 09:17 AM
 
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Feb 01st 2015
1
Unions were never that strong in the south.
Feb 01st 2015
2
"the unions got greedy/lazy" line was pushed hard by the neoliberal econ...
Feb 01st 2015
3
First, they made it harder for people to unionize
Feb 01st 2015
4
^^^^^
Feb 02nd 2015
27
beautiful.
Feb 20th 2015
58
End of post.
Feb 20th 2015
60
easy, we stopped MAKING things which was where...
Feb 01st 2015
5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8WiYBhiDI
Feb 03rd 2015
46
but what about service jobs, office workers and infrastructural shit?
Feb 19th 2015
55
      like i said, class warfare.
Feb 20th 2015
61
NAFTA didn't help either
Feb 01st 2015
6
^^^
Feb 01st 2015
9
Yes, and now Obama and the GOP want to continue
Feb 02nd 2015
20
That makes sense but now that we are a service economy...
Feb 02nd 2015
24
      i guess they'll find a way to hide behind small businesses.
Feb 02nd 2015
41
      small business is the shield that protects big business
Feb 02nd 2015
44
           yup
Feb 02nd 2015
45
      Haha at Wal-Mart workers unionizing
Feb 19th 2015
52
           Walmart is ruthless against unionization...
Feb 20th 2015
59
they're masters of getting people to vote against their own self interes...
Feb 01st 2015
7
biggest political okie doke in 100 years nm.
Feb 01st 2015
8
the GOP is on Jedi Mind Tricks shit
Feb 01st 2015
10
      lots of people still believe that about teachers
Feb 01st 2015
13
      i'm a teacher bruh. what the GOP did was one of the most
Feb 02nd 2015
22
      Democrat policies have been anti-union too
Feb 02nd 2015
21
           Dems general pussyass ways have helped the GOP push the narrative
Feb 02nd 2015
38
all except the police union
Feb 01st 2015
11
which is an effective tool of white supremacy.
Feb 01st 2015
14
cognitive dissonance.
Feb 01st 2015
12
RE: cognitive dissonance.
Feb 01st 2015
15
you think ppl associate unions with black people.
Feb 01st 2015
18
      In my neck of the woods yes
Feb 02nd 2015
34
      now they do
Feb 02nd 2015
37
      yeah, i don't really see that either
Feb 02nd 2015
39
      I think she's in Detroit, though
Feb 02nd 2015
40
           maybe i'm just removed. when i think union workers i think "joe sixpack...
Feb 02nd 2015
43
                Same here
Feb 03rd 2015
47
                im from detroit also and unions make me think skilled trades
Feb 03rd 2015
49
                I used to as well
Feb 04th 2015
51
      Absolutely
Feb 20th 2015
62
A lot of people lack critical thinking skills
Feb 01st 2015
16
The same way they convinced poor yt people to cut food stamps...
Feb 01st 2015
17
No, they got white ppl against food stamps by describing it as
Feb 02nd 2015
25
White people will fight against their own best interest
Feb 02nd 2015
19
^^ Most Underrated Reply.
Feb 02nd 2015
28
Basically
Feb 03rd 2015
48
Tangling up unions with organised crime went a long way, I think.
Feb 02nd 2015
23
they sold the narrative that unions exist to protect lazy workers too.
Feb 02nd 2015
26
they fell madly in love with bootstraps/exceptionalism/joe the plumber
Feb 02nd 2015
29
how come no one ever brings this stuff up on conservative media?
Feb 02nd 2015
30
The Unions didn't do themselves any favors
Feb 02nd 2015
31
funny - i've never heard this story.
Feb 02nd 2015
33
      It was a big narrative in the union-busting 80s
Feb 02nd 2015
35
           oh okay.
Feb 02nd 2015
36
The short answer is privately funded racism
Feb 02nd 2015
32
RE: How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions?
Feb 02nd 2015
42
also, this is why the SEC has come up so heavy in the least 15 years
Feb 03rd 2015
50
Plus the VP's get to golf more months out of the year
Feb 19th 2015
53
Divide/Conquer plus the bootstraps myth
Feb 19th 2015
54
RE: How did the GOP get white ppl to turn on Unions?
Feb 20th 2015
56
detroit / reagan democrats + some good background music:
Feb 20th 2015
57

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