I keep hearing the same dreary words about the Civil War - States rights, Freedom - Yes, states rights and freedom TO OWN SLAVES, BUY, BREED, AND SELL HUMANS. It gets tiresome and I get angry. It was a dark despicable time, and it took a bloody war to end slavery and many years to resolve discrimination in this nation. And it is still not fully resolved. Geez, how the hell do some still cling to this unarguable wrong and pretend it was something it was not. The civil War was fought over slavery - period.
Shawn Fain: the right guy at the right time. Excellent choice.
Finally, after enduring schmo after schmo at Solidarity House the past couple of decades and the post-millennium corruption in the top ranks of this storied union, the rank and file now have a UAW president who's actually a union man to the marrow of his bones and who has the brains to go with his balls. Too bad he wasn't around during my 34 years as a UAW member working at GM and then Delphi.
To use the shop rat's argot from my days on the shop floor in praise of Fain: Yeah, I'd buy that guy a beer.
I keep hearing the same dreary words about the Civil War - States rights, Freedom - Yes, states rights and freedom TO OWN SLAVES, BUY, BREED, AND SELL HUMANS. It gets tiresome and I get angry. It was a dark despicable time, and it took a bloody war to end slavery and many years to resolve discrimination in this nation. And it is still not fully resolved. Geez, how the hell do some still cling to this unarguable wrong and pretend it was something it was not. The civil War was fought over slavery - period.
Shawn Fain: the right guy at the right time. Excellent choice.
Finally, after enduring schmo after schmo at Solidarity House the past couple of decades and the post-millennium corruption in the top ranks of this storied union, the rank and file now have a UAW president who's actually a union man to the marrow of his bones and who has the brains to go with his balls. Too bad he wasn't around during my 34 years as a UAW member working at GM and then Delphi.
To use the shop rat's argot from my days on the shop floor in praise of Fain: Yeah, I'd buy that guy a beer.
The parties swapped colors/ core regions, but held the to their respective economic alignments. https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/an-alternate-american-political-spectrum