Chris Christie vows to punch the national teachers union ‘in the face’ because they ‘deserve’ it

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42. It's somehow permeated

parts of our cultural consciousness that heedless pursuit of profit at the expense of everything and everyone is not only fine for business, but some kind of ethical imperative, and that anything that cuts against that is omgodcommies.

I remember an online and IRL discussion of a local issue last year, where local progressive groups gathered 75,000 citizen signatures to get an earned sick leave issue on the ballot. It was argued, somehow, that while there was presumably no problem with local big business interests literally texting instructions to County Commissioners during the meeting (because they didn't want the initiative, and they of course got their way, illegally as a court later determined) AND that we needed to get to the bottom of who was providing money for the signature drive (Unions?! Communists in China?! The Kennedys??!! HOW FAR DID IT GO???)

There were charts involved. Of the insidious chain of "shadowy liberal groups," contributing to a petition drive, for an initiative to benefit workers. Because that, unlike, say texts from Disney lobbyists directly to politicians while they are conducting public hearings, is just suspicious.

No, no sense of irony whatsoever.

#thisiswhatiswrongwitheverything