When every single Republican is anti-union, why are so many DUers anti-union too?

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95. "Leveraged Buyout" of Dem platform by Third Way

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As the Party Machine kept trying to"triangulate" toward the Mythical Middle during and after the Clinton era, they kept re-defining new groups as the "Angry Left" to be marginalized and excluded.

First the Angry Left were the radicals who might alienate the Mythical Middle by vandalizing property or holding inconvenient noisy protests. Once there was a consensus that the Mythical Middle would shun such troublemakers, the Angry Left became the socialist Democrats. These socialists advocated for programs that cost the Mythical Middle taxpayer money (even if such ideas could save money in the long run) and they defended those insidious Welfare Queens. Once there was a consensus that the Mythical Middle would chew their own arm off rather than spend money on social programs, the socialist Democrats became the "Loony Left" who had to be excluded because they didn't grok the practicalities of *winning* elections.

With the radical and socialist Left disposed of, the next up to bat (in terms of inimicability to the Third Way/New Dem platform and their triangulation of the Mythical Middle) is the Pro-Union Left. This Left is angry because unions have been under siege for years, and there are few powerful unions left. Corporate profiteering at the expense of Labor has also made strikes necessary. These strikes have been hard on the workers who participate in them as well as the "innocent bystanders" of the Mythical Middle who have been inconvenienced by them.

After a long strike it is very easy to posit that the paperpushers of the Mythical Middle bureaucratic/knowledge/professional class can no longer tolerate being inconvenienced by the strikes mounted by those Unions of the Angry Left. Those sound Democrats of the Mythical Middle have to get to work! Not only should Unions be off the platform, the New Dems that represent the Mythical Middle should legislate AGAINST Unions!

After the Pro-Union Angry Left is gone, who will be next? Who will those eminently reasonable projected to be in the Mythical Middle refrain from tolerating next? My bet is the conversation will start to circle around women in the workplace - both of whom can be regarded categorically as competitors when jobs are tight. And we all know no matter what the official numbers say, things are still tough for real people in the real world. It would be only reasonable for the Mythical Middle to unload those Angry Feminists. We can take Time's attempt to ban the tiresome word Feminism as the bellwether for the coming assault.