DL Open Thread: Mon., May 27, 2019
Biden Strategy: Stay Out Of The Public Eye? Can it possibly work long-term?
How The Squid Saved Rhode Island. What bottom-feeder could be Delaware’s salvation? The requisite corruption we’ve already got.
More Census Rethuggery–Undercount Criminals. They’re trying to buy themselves 10 more years by rigging the census. They’ll probably succeed.
Places That Instagram Users Have Ruined. Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.
Might As Well Add Mt. Everest To The List.
What do you want to talk about?
According to the article, the few events Biden plans to attend are union events. This is the politics of the distant past. Union heads endorse Democrats, union members vote Republican. It’s been that way for 40 years now, and Biden hasn’t caught on.
This, in case anyone cares, is why he would make a terrible president. He’s a coward and has no critical thinking abilities. Other than that, he’s great.
You’re not wrong. Progressives abandoned labor so they figured, fuck it, we’ll just do the other.
Bullshit. Labor is intrinsically conservative.
A union exists not just to bargain collectively, but to protect the jobs of its members by limiting the number of people trained to do the job. Unions were a bastion of racial discrimination for decades. In short, it is a special interest group, or a collective of such.
How well I remember when the unions involved backed management of the Delaware City oil refinery in its attempt to forestall the installation of pollution control equipment. Why? Management simply threatened that they’d bring in non-union workers if the union didn’t back its play. That’s all it took to turn the unions into allies instead of adversaries.
Progressive my ass.
Double bullshit. In Delaware, the R’s controlled the House for close to 30 years b/c so-called ‘pro-labor’ R’s consistently won in solid D districts. Why? Because they fed the racial resentments of the white guys, many of whom were construction trades union members. This grew out of resentment over ‘forced busing’. It’s how Terry Spence, Bill Oberle, Jeff Mack, Bruce Reynolds and Rich Davis won in D districts. Progressivism had nothing to do with it. Yes, they were pro-labor on certain issues, but that was no different than their would-be D challengers. It was race. All of these ‘pro-labor’ R’s voted for the draconian sentencing laws. Ginning up racial resentment was their means of getting elected and staying in office.
Which also worked for D’s as well. Tom Sharp, perhaps the most openly-racist of the bunch. Who was the guy behind Tiny Tony DeLuca’s political career, and, as Secretary of Labor, appointed Tiny Tony to be head of Labor Law Enforcement, where DeLuca dumped hundreds of civil rights complaints into the trash.
And trust me–THESE are Biden’s peeps.
From the Rhode Island article:
Sound like any other state we’re familiar with?
The Biden campaign has been candid – Biden isn’t running against the Dems, he is running against Trump.
It could work. I mean it worked for Trump. He ran, mainly, against Clinton at the outset. He threw an occasional barb ar Bush or Cruz, but for the most part, it was wall to wall Clinton bashing.
Whatever you do, don’t listen to a historian explain it!
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