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[DAngelo136]

215. Well, twins.fan...

Firstly you have my sympathies on your team's dismal season. I rather admired the pluck of the Twins.
To your statement, we in Labor and Organized Labor are wasting our time, money and effort in order to elect politicians whose support is being bought off by billionaires, multinational corporations and acting through groups like ALEC in order to weaken if not destroy the middle class as the result of the success of labor unions.
We are faced with the Hobson's choice between a party who is hostile to labor and another party who is indifferent to labor. In the 65 years since the enactment of the Taft-Hartley Act, have you met or heard from any Democratic Party candidate who calls for the repeal of that law? Both parties managed to repeal Glass-Stegall and enact NAFTA signed by President Clinton and CAFTA which was signed by President G.W.Bush. Now why is it so easy to fulfill the demand of business but so, so difficult to do the same for labor?

I am of the opinion that Labor should form it's own political party both national and state. Only by forming our own party can we solve the problems of labor and protect the middle class. The Republicans and Democrats have seen fit to throw their lot with corporations, it is logical and rational for labor to organize in opposition to them. For too long, we have been bamboozled into relying on the two party duopoly that has long since abandoned the working man and woman for "forty pieces of silver". We have seen the degeneration of standards of pay, working conditions and pensions while the CEOs and corporate boards reward themselves with the fruits of our labor and sweat while their corporate lobbyists strut around the capitols of the State and Federal governments gaining more influence within the halls of government.

Every industrialized nation has an organized and potent Labor party; why can't it be done here?
There will be those who will cry "communist", "Marxist" and "Bolshevik". These are the same people who denounce "class warfare" on one hand while carrying it out on the other. I no longer care about what they call me; these same people who defend a system whose ultimate calculus is to reduce the 99% to abject poverty and virtual slavery. To that, I say "NO!"

So, twins.fan, THAT is my answer.