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Losing Power Has Left the Democrat Party Dazed and Confused
spectator.org ^ | Ron Ross

Posted on 01/19/2017 1:02:22 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Lack of power has profound implications for Democrats. Power is the Party’s raison d’être and sine qua non. Without power the party is broke and broken.

Consider, for example, one crucial element of their reliance on “identity politics,” specifically, organized labor. Organized labor is perhaps the single most important and dependable factor in the Democratic Party’s long-term success. In fact, Britain’s equivalent of the Democrat Party is called the Labour Party.

Democrats rely on a perverse variation of voluntary exchange. In exchange for votes, campaign contributions, and election workers, Democrats deliver legislation and regulations favorable to unions. The system works well for both entities, but it only works so long as Democrats have the power to keep their part of the bargain.

On the other side of the quid pro quo, there has to be a sufficient population of union members in order to generate an adequate amount of campaign funds. Unfortunately for the Democrats, the percentage of the U.S. labor force in unions has declined from 20 percent in 1983 to 11 percent now. Less than seven percent of the private workforce is unionized. Thirty-five percent of government employees are union members, but that too is in jeopardy. When President Trump fills the current Supreme Court vacancy, mandatory union dues could well be ruled unconstitutional. That could be a double whammy — reduced union membership and a reduced supply of campaign funds. Trump has said that he wants to reduce the federal workforce by 20 percent. What a glorious accomplishment that would be.

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1 posted on 01/19/2017 1:02:22 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; RitaOK; Black Agnes; PennsylvaniaMom; Fai Mao; Fiddlstix; ...

Ping


2 posted on 01/19/2017 1:04:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

There is no “Democratic Party” anymore, and it’s last gasp was 2004.

There is only the Radical Academic Socialist Billionaires Part now.


3 posted on 01/19/2017 1:07:13 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

If the states with Republican majorities redistrict right the demondogs will have a hard time indeed


4 posted on 01/19/2017 1:15:36 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison)
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To: RoosterRedux

The funny thing in this article is how the conflate “union” with “workers”. They keep saying how the relationship between the Democrat party and the Unions is beneficial to both, but that doesn’t say explain how the workers are benefited.

There is many a union which had it very good while the workers lost all their jobs.

UNITE screwed the garment workers to death in 1998 by making a deal with some clothing manufactures to allow them to close their shops in NY for a sum of money to retrain the fired workers in other jobs. The fired workers tried to apply for that training and UNITE told them that since they were not working, they were not members of the union and were not eligible for retraining. But the union officials had a good year with all the bonuses.


5 posted on 01/19/2017 1:22:52 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: RoosterRedux

We are witnessing the political death of the Democrat party, caused by Barack Hussein Obama & Hillary Clinton. The establishments of both the Republican & Democrat parties....is so yesteday!! “Nothing is as dead, as an idea whose time has passed, long ago!!!


6 posted on 01/19/2017 1:34:04 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Bttt


7 posted on 01/19/2017 1:35:37 AM PST by kalee
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To: RoosterRedux
Democrats deliver legislation and regulations favorable to unions.

......and unfavorable to companies, actually destroying them and the jobs that supplied the unions.

8 posted on 01/19/2017 1:35:43 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Lady Heron

They may be dazed and confused now ... but I fear their lies are more powerful than the truth embodied in our Constitution.

They will be back in force, soon, to start Civil War II.


9 posted on 01/19/2017 1:39:31 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: RoosterRedux

It was the blow to the head that got them dazed and confused.

The beating to the body is inbound.


10 posted on 01/19/2017 1:41:10 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: RoosterRedux

The left still have got long term competitive advantage. They keep a firm hand on education and MSM.


11 posted on 01/19/2017 1:47:52 AM PST by granada
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To: RoosterRedux

I think the biggest deflator is perhaps the taking down of the Goliath MSM by a man slinging tweets. And the WHOLE WORLD SAW IT - live!

I absolutely love it.


12 posted on 01/19/2017 1:48:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Nothingburger

I look at it differently. There’s that saying something about ....lies are what need constant defending - the truth can take care of itself.


13 posted on 01/19/2017 1:50:28 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: tcrlaf

It should be labeled what it is..the Socialist Fascist Party


14 posted on 01/19/2017 2:00:56 AM PST by RaginRak
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To: wbarmy

On the federal level they get favorable legislation, i.e., card check which I think ultimately failed, not sure. Plus they get the NLRB to hound companies. But the more nefarious gains they get I’ve witnessed at the state level here in CA. Two things:

1.) They cycle of union money and democrat politicians means (particularly for the public sector) that the unions effectively end up negotiating with themselves come contract time.

2.) And probably the most nefarious they got the the legislature and the governor to sign off on collective bargaining agreements that allowed them to raise wages and benefits to obscene levels based on future earning in the state pension fund (CALPERS). Of course what happened? Market crashed in 2000 and 2008. But the contracts were already signed and now cities go bankrupt because the majority of their revenues are tied up in paying pension and health benefit obligations.

It’s an evil of the worst kind.


15 posted on 01/19/2017 2:04:14 AM PST by JPX2011
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To: RoosterRedux

Even conservatives seem to be nervous about using the label ‘communist’.


16 posted on 01/19/2017 2:06:17 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

bkmk


17 posted on 01/19/2017 2:13:42 AM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: tcrlaf

Here in California, it’s the Black MexiRAT contingent that provides the stupidity necessary to run our legislature, backed up by the Hollywood/Silicon Valley Axis of whacked out billionaires and dumb$hit actors. Here’s hoping Jerry & Co. can bankrupt the state before he leaves office, so Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ex-husband (Any Twosome Newsom)can oversee the smoldering disaster Brown leaves.


18 posted on 01/19/2017 2:26:17 AM PST by vette6387
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To: tcrlaf

¨Demmunists¨


19 posted on 01/19/2017 2:28:38 AM PST by ganeemead
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To: Nothingburger

They’ll be lucky to last two weeks in Civil War II.


20 posted on 01/19/2017 2:30:39 AM PST by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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