Al From's group wanted a "bloodless revolution" in our Democratic Party.

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56. Corruption can be one cause.

I don't mean corruption in the usual sense. I mean corruption of the definition of what a labor union is supposed to be and do. Many of the labor unions down where I live are not real. They are put here to keep us from having real labor unions. They do nothing but take money (dues) and tell you to vote against your own interests, for those anti-labor blue dog dems. I have a friend from NY who had experience with real unions before he moved down here for a while in the 90s. He explained how these unions down here are a crock of shit, not real, and only put here to keep the real unions out. That is why labor unions do not have more power. That is why the more liberal part of the party does not have more control.

You always gotta watch the south for a deranged interpretation of what any Democratic Party values really mean. ALWAYS. I am not one for demographic hatred, but I'm talking about the power structure here. There are tons of great Democrats in the south. That's not my point. My point is that the power structure of the party down here in the southern states is what is giving us these hideous corporate blue dog conservative Democrats. It is how someone like Kim Davis can be on a speaking tour with all her Republican buddies right now, refusing to do her damn job, refusing to follow the laws of the country, and all the while she's getting paid $80,000 a year for NOT doing her job AND she is an ELECTED DEMOCRAT. That's what passes for a Democrat in many areas down here. It's sickening. That is why I wish there was a way to explain the difference between general south bashing and talking about the shit power structure Democrats down here have to put up with. Y'all give us people like THIS as our choice of Democrat to vote for?

In my county in NC, they are some of the most conservative damn Democrats around. They act just like Kim Davis, only there are no cameras and no opposition to the types of things they do. It happens all over. Primaries come around and our choices on the ballot are the same right wing Democrats every single time, period. So, either you vote for them, for your local choices, or leave it blank. They are going to "win" the nomination either way, because they always do, because they are the only ones on the ballot in the primaries. It would be like if every time you went to vote, every single office you were voting for had a single person on the ballot and that person was Kim Davis or another just like her. That is what it is like. It leaves a sickening taste in a person's mouth. I know. I taste it every time I vote for local elections in the primaries. It's a crock of shit.

That is how anti-union candidates are able to get any union support. A corruption of the very definition of what it all means, the point of having unions in the first place. It is like that saying, you can find any poll to support your position on any issue if you look around. Or Bible verses. Jesus was known as the Prince of Peace among many, but he also said he came with a sword in the Bible too. So, that is the kind of twisted logic used. It could be why you don't understand how 3rd wayers can get union support. The logic is just too twisted. It is anti-logic.