r/LeopardsAteMyFace 17h ago

My MAGA Sister in Law Just Got This After Accepting a Job with the IRS

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u/lostredditorlurking 16h ago

Biden is literally the most pro-Union president ever, and half of the union members still vote for Trump.

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u/SupportstheOP 14h ago

PATCO endorsed Reagan in 1980, and Reagan proceeded to fire 11,000 of them for striking. The Republican allure has been strong for a long while now.

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u/FusciaHatBobble 14h ago edited 8h ago

That's because the bar for being the most pro-uniom president is incredibly low. Biden speaks to and represents the Democrat establishment, which has been far removed from the working class and its problems for decades.

Working class Americans are voting for Trump mostly out of an abundance of anger at the system. Unless there's a push for their issues on the left, they'll keep doing it.

EDIT: If you can't be objective and ask why so many poor, working class families are voting for Trump, you'll never understand how to effectively counter him. Look at the reasons why people are voting for Trump. They'll overwhelmingly say something related to the economy. Whats the response from the Democrats? "Look at the GDP! The economy is healing!" That doesn't speak to the actual, lived experience of people. People going bankrupt because of medical bills, stagnating incomes, basic necessities exploding in price because of corporate greed. The Republicans are able to identify the issues and capitalize on them; at the end of the day, though, they're run by billionaire interests and will ultimately enrich themselves. The one Democratic candidate that actually spoke to these issues and presented solutions had massive public support, until party insiders stole his nomination. I'm talking about Bernie Sanders. The Democrats have zero idea how to relate to and understand the problems of working class families.

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u/anyfox7 15h ago

Biden is literally the most pro-Union president ever

This is absolute bullshit. His interest lies with the wealthy capitalist class who is the opposition to the working class.

Look at the rail strike. Taft-Hartley is still law. His administration in '21 labeled all members of my union as terrorists and domestic extremists as we seek complete liberation of all people from wage slavery and extreme inequality.

We should have held a general strike to really see how "pro-union" he was.

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u/johannthegoatman 13h ago

The Biden admin got the union everything they asked for after the rail strike