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YoungDemCA

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4. Forgot to add: The power of unions - organized working class politics - to push wages/incomes up...
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 03:55 PM
Dec 2016

...and to make all workers both more likely to vote Democratic, and more likely to vote, period - especially working class white men in the private sector, whom have trended sharply Republican over the last few decades - cannot be overstated.

Organized labor is critical to both the ability and willingness of Democrats to staunchly support and successfully advance a political program that would make the lives of working people, and people other than the wealthy and well-connected in general, better and richer and more hopeful overall.

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