Does the Rank-and-File Union Worker Know Who Their Bosses are Asking Them To Stand With? - Part II

Below is the conclusion to my most recent Blog that I just stopped in the middle of – too long for one Post.  Now the ending:

Fourthly, (Article Topic):

"Activists here and around the country have begun mobilizing to stop cold those who promote racism and hatred of Muslims."

"They drum up anti-Muslim hatred along with a phony populism. Their target is a proposed Islamic community center a few blocks from the WTC site."

"These racists’ short-term electoral goal is to defeat the Democratic Party in the upcoming congressional elections and debilitate the Barack Obama administration."

"Workers need anti-racist solidarity to wage their essential fight for jobs, education, health care and other social benefits."

"Fortunately, forces are mobilizing to confront the right-wingers’ fascist-like rally."

OK, in all the latest polls 70% of New Yorkers are against the Islamic Center being built in its selected location - these NY'ers all know it is the Muslims right to build a mosque there as they all know it is their right to protest it.  The question is, is it the right thing to do?  If in fact this is suppose to be a "bridge" to other religions, non-Muslims, as we are continually told, but yet seven in ten oppose the location, wouldn't it be the smart thing to move it to another location - if in fact you were truly wanting to build "bridges?"

Are ALL these people racist?

Are ALL these people Republican? (in one of the most Democratic Cities in the Nation?)

Are ALL these people against jobs, education, health care and other social benefits?

Do you think that all who oppose the building of the "Islamic Center" are anti-Muslim?  anti-worker?

Do you think that there are no Union members that oppose the mosque?

Why has one of the largest Muslim groups in Canada spoken out against the masque location?  Why do they think it is wrong?  What is their motive?

Why is the Islamic Center called the "Cordoba" Project?

As for his statement, "...right-wingers fascist-like rally." - either the author doesn't know, or he suspects his readers don't know, that fascism is a BIG government movement and part of the "Left" on the spectrum of political ideology.  The further Right one goes the smaller and smaller one gets on the size-of-government scale – the furthest right being Anarchism, which is no government.  Let me assure you, if he is attacking Conservative Republicans (we know he is) then none of them believe in fascism and its big government movement.  Most tend to follow along with the thinking of the Founders and their limited government philosophy.  It is the left on the political spectrum that is for BIG government (as you know), they want the federal government to control everything or almost everything, i.e. communism, socialism, marxism, fascism, progressivism, liberalism (in its non-classical sense).  Our Founders created this Constitutional Republic closer to the right end of the spectrum then the left - not mid-way between the two, but decidedly closer to anarchy with NO federal government then to the other end, TOTAL government.  But I believe the author of your article knows that, or should have, but as loose as he played with facts in his article he didn't really care, may not have known, and/or figured most would go along with his contention rather then question what he was saying.  Why not?  It has been a played moniker for a long time and many people don't really know what it means.  Fortunately for me, I do.

I have read it and researched who wrote it and from what ideological bent he came from and thus have my speculations, what are your thoughts?

Did you know the background of the author of this article?

Did you know the beliefs of the organization that sponsors this web site and the event?

Is this article and its rancor something you believe?

Is Marxism, Socialism, etc. your ideology?

What system of job creation do you think lifts up the common man and woman more - Socialism, etc or Capitalism?  Why?

What do you believe in, generally speaking?

Again, thanks for sending the article and I look forward to hearing back from you and engaging in a thoughtful discussion on your opinions.” 

Well, suffice to say he NEVER sent me a responding e-mail – and you know what?  He didn’t know about anything that I wrote to him about – he didn’t know about this organization and its founders and that they believed in the things I pointed out to him – he didn’t know his Union bosses were asking him to stand with these people – he didn’t know, and he works for the Union!  He works directly for the Union as one of their employees and he knew none of this – I am sure he didn’t know how to respond and more then likely he just didn’t believe it and disregarded the whole thing. 

He is an American.  He believes in America and wants what is right for America.  However, he has totally bought in to all the Union rhetoric, that Republicans are bad people that hate everyone, that they are racists, all rich, and love all companies and their management.  He believes everything he hears from the Democratic party must be true.  Everything he hears from NBC, CBS and ABC is true, but any other news organization is spreading lies.  He doesn’t know the big Union bosses have a completely different agenda then he has and they are as much big business as the companies he has been taught to hate – but they are much worse because they convince all these people that they “care” for them.  He doesn’t know the Unions don’t really care about him or the America he loves at all.  He doesn’t know the President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, just stated yesterday that he “got into the labor movement not because I wanted to negotiate wages.  I got into the labor movement because I saw it as a vehicle to do massive social change…” – it’s not your wages he is interested in but rather it’s the Progressive agenda – corruption, power, back room deals - he wants to effect change and push his agenda around the world and that will take down America, and the sad thing is, that means the American worker too.  They don’t care about the Union worker except for their forced Union dues taken out of their pay-checks each week that gives them the tens of millions of dollars to buy politicians and exert the power they need to change the very fabric of this country – and the thing is, most all the hard working Union members DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEIR UNION BOSSES ARE REALLY DOING AND WHERE THEY ARE REALLY PUSHING THE COUNTRY AND THEM.  

Who are you standing with and why, do you know?