@nitpicking@mstdn.party“... The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights, including welfare & the right to vote ..."
#StephenMiller, Trump's Chief of Staff, quoted by historian #HeatherCoxRichardson
Mr. Miller is the m…
@cdarwin@c.im-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…
@davej@dice.campI shouldn’t hear #Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in my head when I read opinion polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump's Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/republican-party-trump-labor-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p18#a251217p18
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Although the leftist alliance led by Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, is ahead in the opinion polls, she will not get an outright majority in the first round as Boric did. And a collection of right-wing parties is likely to combine their vote and get Kast into the presidential office in the second round in December."
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you don’t already know, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist and I’m tired of people thinking that means I’m some authoritarian commie pretending to be leftist. I don’t bootlick party lines or worship dead strongmen. Centralized power rots no matter what color the flag is.
Hear me out, I’ve read actual labor history, I know what labor power means. We build our politics on horizontal organizing and direct action, not on some bureaucrat ordering purges in the name of the people. Real socialism …
