• BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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      This is true and very welcome, but TBH that’s a very low bar to clear and a long time coming. Up until the Biden admin started taking action, union protections have been steadily eroded since the Reagan admin. and with that, union membership went on a decades-long collapsing trend (and with it, so did labor’s buying power).

      The point to my above post was that it had to get very dark for a candidate like Trump to get any oxygen whatsoever, and if there’s one way to drive despair in democracy, it’s to make people that grew up expecting to live middle-class lives into poor people.

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      The most pro labor president in decades being an union buster just reinforces the point.

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      Those are decades of being wildly off course not just in labor but in environment, regulation, infrastructure, and innovation.