Mall Rats: Union Thugs Occupy National Mall to Support Democrats
Big Labor, big socialism, and big piles of trash — that's what the "One Nation" rally brought to Washington. PJTV's Trifecta trio take on that and more!
October 8, 2010 - 12:00 am
Big labor descended on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the One Nation rally. Stephen Kruiser, Scott Ott and Steve Green ask why so few people attended this union gathering in this episode of <em>Trifecta</em>.
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Not in Our Name: The ‘One Nation’ March — Today’s Trade Unions and the Left
October 4, 2010 – by Ron Radosh
Writing on FrontPagemag.com, Rich Trzupek accurately observes how “Saturday’s ‘One Nation’ rally in Washington demonstrated just how far out of step the Left is with America.” Having once sought to condemn Tea Partiers as racist and anarchists, now “they’re telling America that Tea Partiers are corporate shills.” MSNBC’s talking head, the repulsive and little watched Ed Schultz, told the small crowd that “this march is about the power to the people. It is about the people standing up to the corporations. The conservative voices of America, they are holding you down. They don’t believe in your freedom. They want the concentration of wealth. They’ve shipped your job overseas.”
As Schultz saw things, it was the corporations that were holding down “the working man of America.” They want to ship American jobs overseas, he argued, and keep all the profit and money for themselves. It did not occur to Schultz, evidently, that protectionist trade policies would only decrease jobs at home, spur a trade war, increase prices, and even more quickly produce a new economic downturn — with a result of even less jobs at home.
As Trzupek points out, however, the conservative opponents of Obama do not shill for the corporations. They not only “distrust corporate America,” but “understand that businesses large and small must be held accountable for their actions and that government should do its best to maintain a level playing field. The Left’s wild assertion that conservatives — and it should be noted that twice as many Americans associate themselves with the right than they do the Left — favor unchecked corporate greed over their own well-being is patently ridiculous. Those same Americans are stockholders in corporations, their retirement accounts depend on the continued profitability of those corporations and their jobs, to a large extent, depend on maintaining a free market economy that allows corporations large and small to thrive.”
Like the old union leaders, they know that a market economy is their friend — not their enemy.
Not only was this rally divisive and one that could never unite America, but scores of its participants openly made clear their hatred for this country. That is why John Avlon is correct when he calls his column about the march “Left-wing Crazies Take Their Turn.” The rally, he writes, “offered a snapshot of the fragile coalition that is the contemporary far left — a dizzying array of activist organizations and identity politics, with financial muscle provided by the labor unions who bused their members in.” Just take a look at who is part of this “coalition,” — groups such as the National Center for Transgender Equality, the National Council for La Raza, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition, the communist International Answer anti-war group, Code Pink, the Apollo Alliance, the old CP front the US Peace Council, the Democratic Socialists of America, the far left International Socialist Organization, the split from the CP, the Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, and yes — the Communist Party USA!
Gone are the days when such groups would be forbidden to be part of a labor-led coalition. That today they are not only welcomed, but urged to take part, indicates how isolated and far removed from the people today’s labor leaders are. The leaders’ obviously false claims that their march had as many participants as the Beck march simply add insult to injury, since anyone can see how false that claim is.
If the One Nation march is now the face of the united left in this country, it is rather clear that the Tea Party and conservatives in general do not have much to worry about from their movement.
I only met one person who attended the “one nation” rally. A twenty seven year old who still lives at home with his parents, who mostly support him. they sent him college and he actually got a real degree in Chemistry. however, he doesn’t like teaching and considers working for a company in lab “not his style” So he saw his occupation is “political activest” . That should give you some idea who shows up at these left wing gatherings!