What you witnessed, are the thugs for “labor allocation.” They envision that, they will be the recipients of such, including pay scales set by a national labor-economic directorate.
What usually happens, is that very quickly, and just before that union-utopia is reached, the organization for it, is collapsed and consumed by the national labor-economic directorate, which promptly enforces the elimination of the former union stewards, while recruiting the thugs into a new, national political action army.
Of course, I’m describing the path of the unions in countries that transit to crony-capitalism, thence fascism, then nationalizing socialization ... then national socialism.
There are a variety of those, from Hitler’s German to Stalin’s Russia -— *all* nationalizing socialist (the phase that preaches “social and economic justice, in order to attain power), then national socialist (the phase that achieves power and enforces consolidation).
That is the path of labor unions and leftists and too many liberals who have sought to gain from association with and supporting same.
The defense for “collective bargaining” by the union leadership? That is destroyed by the new leadership, and it is why the former union stewards who envisioned their own rise in the ranks, are eliminated.
It’s all there, in the history of the 3rd Reich, which apparently we had to suffer thru to have these facts pounded into the historical record for all to see.
Yet that is lost upon the left, the unions, and their politicos, who imagine yet again, that they will overcome the mistakes of their ... nature.
In the end, the NAZI’s are an organization of bullies and thugs; they are organized crime; they are organized terrorists.
They spread fear upon the land, and people give up quite a lot of their freedom to buy time and hope that things will change.
The nationalizing socialist bullies rely upon a lack of organization that may resist them, and they rely upon government agents in collusion with them ... as all seek position and power in the dark regime.
It was evil in Germany. It was evil in the Soviet Union. It has been evil in Red China and Cuba. It is evil in North Korea. It is evil in areas to the east that are set upon the destruction of Israel.
In each case, the governing powers have nearly unlimited power over people, and now, wherever you find a reach for such power, evil is lurking about, trying to defeat freedom, liberty, and the human spirit that are gifts from God.
We must resist the designs of evil and its forces.
Indeed. What I found interesting was the escalation of rhetoric and egging on that came from relatively few people strategically placed in the crowd. As the awful “bucket bangers” whacked on empty 5 gallon containers, the agitators acted as cheerleaders for their sections, until the inevitable fight broke out in front, and a cascade of violence erupted. We didn’t feel like we were in danger until the last 10 minutes or so because the crowd was so goofy-a lot like rambunctious teenaged boys at a football game.
Of course, the Socialist Party People were there, handing out pamphlets.
I’ve taken a lot of heat from my own family members, who think it was foolish of me to be there. A few cousins and aunts have cut off contact with my mom, and made it clear that I’m now considered some kind of a renegade.