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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Is the wall offer still on the table?
Why do you get to paint yourself as someone doing something for the greater good of the country and your children but paint Rubecube as someone destroying the world just so the “far left” can win? What if you have different versions of what the “greater good” looks like? Because to me, protecting workers rights is part of the greater good.
For someone who said they’d vote in a murderer and consider a pedophile, it’s just a pathetic way to approach it. I wouldn’t, for example, care about putting myself on the line to protect worker’s rights for a union entirely made of pedophiles, but that’s where we have different standards. You very clearly will do anything for your version of “the greater good,” and that’s fine, but not everyone would stoop so low, and not everyone shares the same values you do (if you value anything).
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A long, full railroad strike would hurt many times more people of all classes than the 100k or so in the rr unions in question. The government stepping in, in this situation with a forced mediation isn't setting a precedent for non essential infrastructure unions. Supporting a railroad strike is a cut off your nose to spite your face move, and I don't find that rational.
Republicans should absolutely be shamed for voting for Walker as their candidate. But if you believe in the crap Republicans believe in, then it's not irrational to vote for him unless they think he's some kind of wolf in sheep's clothing that will go against their interests. I distinguished a job like Senator that is just a vote, vs a Governor or President that judgement, character and intellect matter and where maybe they'd have powers to do further evil or enable it.
A lot of the "progressive" type platforms tend to be too black and white and are cut off your nose to spite your face policies. They sacrifice incremental improvement for digging their heels in on policies that aren't necessarily feasible or that will cause more harm than good, and in turn kill the incremental improvements that would actually help people.