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Sunday, 04 September 2011
A liberal explains Labor Day: If you're not pro-union, you're pro-slavery
Taking race-baiting to new heights of mendacity, the Sunday Star-Ledger opines thusly:
The American experience overflows with examples of ordinary people — the working class — siding with corporations and the powerful against their own economic interests.
The most tragic example is the nearly 300,000 Confederate soldiers, the "Johnnie Rebs," who died to preserve slavery, the South's "peculiar institution" that undercut the value of their own labor and reduced their income.
Few "Johnnies" had slaves to call their own, but they fell for the siren song of the plantation aristocracy that the Southern way of life (and its economic exploitation) was threatened.
As another Labor Day arrives, it's not hard to see many in the present-day workforce doing the same thing, this time by accepting the notion that organized labor (e.g., teachers, auto workers, public employees) — not Wall Street and a reckless, unregulated financial industry — collapsed the economy.
Got that? If you're not pro-union, you're pro-slavery. Because fighting for the Confederacy is just like requiring teachers and firemen to pay a few bucks toward their health insurance. Eliminate collective bargaining and the taskmaster's whip will surely be unrestrained.
But wait, it gets "better." You see, there is a Real Reason we need unions, and it's not because they're the only guys who remember the Thirteenth Amendment. It's to prevent people from voting for Republicans.
Americans who once identified themselves as working class began, as their wealth increased (thanks to organized labor), to identify with those higher up the income scale. Auto union leaders in Michigan noticed with dismay that some members even voted Republican.
Good grief! Anything but that!
Here's the true (liberal) meaning of Labor Day: you need the union around to keep telling you how miserable you are. Otherwise you might vote for a Republican, who obviously grew up on a plantation and can't wait to see black people hanging from trees. Even though, as I recall (and for the record I'm no Civil War historian here), the KKK was overwhelmingly comprised of Democrats. And the labor union movement was for many years a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union.
If your shop steward didn't mention those facts? Well, I'm sure it was just an oversight. Happy Labor Day!
UPDATE 05 Sep 2011 11:12:
Linked at Conservative Hideout. Thanks!
Posted at 19:08 by Chris Wysocki
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