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The USA used to be badass when we thought our leadership were underhanded charlatans.
Bosses used to respect their labor because otherwise "collective bargaining" could potentially mean your employees dragging you out your front door and beating you in the yard until you agreed to a cost-of-living increase...if you didn't take the hint when monkey-wrenches kept ending up wedged in the machinery.
Now look at us: The people waving guns around and screeching about "liberty and freedom" are the same people simping for their masters and bragging about how many hours they put in when they keep getting pay cuts. Belching out "wE tHe PeOpLe" while blaming immigrants and foreigners for everything, their fascist puppet-masters hands wedged firmly up them.
Lefties and socialists sold out and became spineless utopian yuppies and forgot what fighting for your rights actually entails.
Unions have to be "approved" and "recognized" by their oppressors to be considered valid. Corporations make us sign away our rights to a fair trial if they wrong us.
This whole thing used to seem like it worked because once upon a time both sides had a certain social contract and agreed to play by rules and pretend we lived in a civilized society.
But now we're back to some monstrous autocrat saying "Who cares? Winning. Lol." , and we're all stuck wondering why nobody's listening to us.
Now we're on the verge of being labeled "terrorists" if we so much as lift a finger against their regime. The people need to claim their fire back if we're going to see these dark times through.
We're repeating history. The Pullman Car Company, for example, pulled this exact same move. Not particularly fond of Churchill, but yes, we forgot, we're repeating.