2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you could get only one thing through this Congress, what would be your Dream Bill? [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)Because if I can only have one thing, I want the one thing that will:
bury the pro-business right
reorganize America's labor force
raise the standard of living
rebuild the middle class
create good jobs in America
erode the power of the exploiter of labor: the sweatshop owner
Hell, it even in the long-term cripples the beneficiaries of Citizen's United because union labor is the only way the working-classes will ever have the ability to collectively fight back...and T-H repeal will grow organized labor.
Repealing Taft-Hartley is to decisively win for the working-class, middle-class and the workers of America. It's more than 50% our economic message and it positions us to win on the other half.
There is no issue I want to win on more. Winning Taft-Hartley is to simply win. We'll get everything else in time if we do this now, we'll have the votes of every currently underpaid exploited American worker. I'll even capitulate on big issues like entitlement cuts and Bush tax cuts for the top-earners if I can get T-H repeal because I know we win in the end with it on everything except social issues and we're already winning social issues.