Democrat policy is built on a pile of lies, deceptions, misdirection, and deceit. But you can’t openly admit you are just making stuff up so you can use people to accumulate unassailable political power. Even rank and file Dems might balk at that.
You instead invent or create problems you then promise to solve. One of those problems is the lie that a trace gas will end the planet, and you must abandon your lifestyle to save the world. After decades of secular humanism, the godless vacuum has grown to such a degree that pandering to a socialist economic program disguised as meaning appeals. You have a purpose. I’m helping to save the planet.
You are being used to end free markets and secure one-party-state socialism. But again, that’s what is behind the curtain. What you see if the nearly intolerable heat and hate of Oz, the great and powerful. Do his bidding, an you might get some consideration. But much like the movie, no matter what you do, it is not enough, and only until you reveal and accept the truth can you be free.
The United Auto Workers is having something of a road to Damascus moment on the subject of good-paying green jobs.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) is going after President Joe Biden’s so-called “green energy” agenda for its wage-cutting outcomes while showering billions in American taxpayer money on the three largest automakers in the nation: Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis.
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UAW President Shawn Fain, as well as the union’s members in Lordstown, Ohio, are sounding the alarm on severe cuts to auto workers’ wages as a result of the Biden administration’s push to steer automakers towards EVs, enticing them with federal subsidies.
Money a plenty is being dumped on the idea but most of it is going – according to Fain – to well-connected and well-heeled investors and executives. It’s a real class struggle, a class-based conflict. The thing unions claim justifies their continued existence. And here we have it in real life and real-time, perpetrated by Left-Wing robber barons of the Church of the Green Utopia.
And auto workers should be concerned, though not just about how the EV market might be impacting wages and jobs. Ever since The Green New Deal landed inside the DC Beltway, the Dems have not been shy about their plans. Privately owned automobiles are an outdated concept whose shelf life has reached its end. The UAW’s workers are clinging to obsolete skills (learn to code, right?).
And EVs are not the future of individual transportation. They are the means by which personal transportation will be limited to the wealthy and connected, and you won’t have auto plants all over the nation to meet that need. You will have a few, run by the approved oligarch, using increased automation.
You need to listen to Lawrence Garfield (played by Danny DeVito) in Other People’s Money.
This company is dead. I didn’t kill it. Don’t blame me. It was dead when I got here. It’s too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. You know why? Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. We’re dead, alright. We’re just not broke. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure.
You know, at one time there must’ve been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I’ll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let’s have the intelligence, let’s have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future.
Except that there is no insurance, and no one is coming to invest in your future. The automobile business, as we know it, as the UAW knows it, is being bled out by the political left, and they could care less how many hard-working union laborers suffer as a result. In fact, you are worth more to them on the dole – dependent on their largess – than anywhere else. Absent the union, they need some other way to influence you, and making you a full-time dependent “employee” of the welfare system is that ticket.
That’s no reason to lie down. In fact, I’d like to suggest you stand up and do the one thing you still can. Stop electing Democrats. Take control of your Union’s priorities. UAW President Shawn Fain appears to have gotten a glimpse behind the curtain, but not enough. And is he alone in this, or are other union leaders more interested in representing the workers who elected them or the politicians who invite them to parties?
Those union bosses are a bad as the Democrats with whom they rub elbows, but the workers have more power than both unless they refuse to step up and protect their livelihood. And that begins by accepting that the Democrat party agenda is an enemy of that livelihood.
