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Laura Larrecou's avatar

The best article I've read all year for concise and accurately reflecting the facts. The top of the food chain is the Supreme Court. People are pissed and starting to fight back.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Your assessment that strong workers' unions are essential to ameliorate income inequality is true. Strong unionized workers enable a secure middle class. The middle class income levels since the 1990s have eroded to the point that only very upper middle class persons can afford to buy houses now, for instance.

Economic anxiety, among the 98% non-millionaires in the US, leads to such extreme dissatisfaction; that it can enable authoritarian politicians to be regarded as necessary to "fix" the problem. We are in such a state now. The fpotus has, due to various factors - billionaire ruling plans with the Project 2025 agenda, theocratic SC decisions, right-wing media ascendancy - become the standard bearer for many dissatisfied people.

So ironically, instead of advocating for unionization to address economic ills, the misinformed, disinformed, public turns to an anti-union, billionaires backed, "populist" to solve economic disparities. It is a blatant oligarchial, authoritarian, grab for power. The only bulwark against such a takeover is a robust unionized economy. Along with regulatory agencies able to minimize unfettered, corporate greed actions against workers, consumers, and the environment.

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