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BillZBubb

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1. Union workers got reasonably affluent after the progressives helped them reach their goals.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:53 PM
Jun 2014

As soon as they got theirs, they turned their backs on the rest of the Democratic coalition and started voting for republicans. They got played like violins by the Nixons and Reagans of the right. That was the beginning of the end for the union movement. They voted for their own demise.

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