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Why One Baby Buster Voted For Donald Trump
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(01-23-2017, 08:56 PM)Mikebert Wrote:
(01-20-2017, 02:51 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:
(01-20-2017, 11:37 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: This country needs a real labor movement. Not a stealth PAC for politicians, not a crypto-Marxist front group ... but a real grass roots group that is actually run by real workers and whose mission is good paying jobs, reasonable Ts and Cs between workers and corporations, etc ... all the good motherhood and apple pie stuff.

The Tea Party, which is composed of real workers, has been trying to turn the Republican party into this, but with admittedly mixed success.

The Tea Party as a labor movement? Where did you get this idea?  They are a libertarian-type conservative movement. Their principal opposition was to deficit-spending to fund liberal projects.   My understanding is that they were mainly composed of older, retired workers or self-employed individuals, as opposed to working-class wage earners.

The Tea Party has always been composed primarily of workers - people who earn their income through work.  That excludes people who are primarily investors and people who are primarily on welfare.

The term "labor" movement typically refers to organized labor - that is, people in the middle of the wage scale that organize to make gains at the cost of lower income and higher income workers.  Tea Party policies are broader than that.
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