Fastly Sad Times At Ridgmont as Labor is deserted by the Left? Who o who will deliver the Pizza?

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Dems in Disarray: Interest Groups Clash, Officials Warn of Violence at Convention
Guy Benson
Posted: May 17, 2016 1:07 PM
Dems in Disarray: Interest Groups Clash, Officials Warn of Violence at Convention

With all the air time filled and ink spilled over divisions within the Republican Party and conservative movement -- which are real and run deep -- far less attention has been paid to schisms within the Democratic coalition. As Hillary Clinton limps lamely toward her party's nomination (she has lost 20 contests to Socialist Bernie Sanders so far, and may well add to that list), internal strife within the American center-left is increasingly spilling into public view. The New York Times hit newsstands this morning with a front page, above-the-fold headline that reads, "Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan." The piece describes simmering tensions between two groups that have historically been central to the Left's vast voter mobilization operation:

Two of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies, labor and environmentalists, are clashing over an effort to raise tens of millions of dollars for an ambitious voter turnout operation aimed at defeating Donald J. Trump in the November election. The rift developed after some in the labor movement, whose cash flow has dwindled and whose political clout has been increasingly imperiled, announced a partnership last week with a wealthy environmentalist, Tom Steyer, to help bankroll a new fund dedicated to electing Democrats. That joint initiative enraged members of the nation’s biggest construction unions, already on edge about the rising influence of climate-change activists. The building-trades unions view Mr. Steyer’s environmental agenda as a threat to the jobs that can be created through infrastructure projects like new gas pipelines. The dispute, laid bare in a pair of blistering letters sent on Monday to Richard L. Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., underscored the tensions between the two pillars of the Democratic coalition.

That mention of Tom Steyer serves as an always-timely reminder that leftists' righteous fulminations about the horrid, immoral influence of money in politics really only applies to right-leaning money. They're happy to spend, spend, spend to further their agenda. Indeed, this is a party that is about to nominate a woman who may well have considered selling corporate ad space on her ubiquitous pantsuits. In any case, many blue collar workers appear to be growing concerned that the party to whom their union dues flow is kicking them to the curb in favor of the environmentalist movement's greener pastures. From Hillary Clinton's brazen vow to drive coal industry laborers out of work, to the Obama administration's refusal to approve the private sector job-creating (and union-backed) Keystone pipeline, to lingering Obamacare frustrations (lookin' at you, Jon Gruber), some voters within this core Democratic constituency may be wondering how today's ultraliberal Democratic Party serves their interests. This consternation could open a window of opportunity for Donald Trump to exploit heading into the fall. Some of this is posturing and bluster, but the verbiage in these missives does not suggest these wounds will be easily healed:

In one of the two letters sent on Monday, presidents of seven of the nation’s biggest construction unions threatened to boycott the new get-out-the-vote effort, called For Our Future PAC. “It saddens us that the very labor movement we have fought for and supported for over a century seems to have lost sight of its core mission and has moved away from us and our membership in the interest of headline-grabbing political expediency,” wrote the leaders of the operating engineers, plumbers, elevator constructors, roofers, laborers, plasterers, and heat and frost insulators...In a separate and even more harshly worded letter to Mr. Trumka, the president of the 500,000-member laborers union, Terry O’Sullivan, called the partnership a “politically bankrupt betrayal” of union members. “We object to the political agenda of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. being sold to a job-killing hedge fund manager with a bag of cash,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, there's more trouble in paradise. Following the ugly upheaval witnessed at last weekend's Nevada Democratic Convention, some party officials are receiving threats and warning the national party of potential violence in Philadelphia this July:

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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 10 months ago
    The left has long been a haven for violence as long as its left direced. Soro's Secular Progressive not seem to lead in backing that apect but in doing so they and the Wasserman Faction forget the original intent and makeup of the lefts famous triumverate of power.

    A. Government presumably with military in full control and that is certainly problematic if not a source of reliabilty these days.

    The Statists long used to assuming they are the big wheel, the big penny on the bicycle built for one continue to play one of their support groups against the other.

    B. The corporatists or the little wheel are generally happy with their lot in life except when that alll important role is marginalized by the the Statists. The ability to cross over at will makes that game even more dangerous for the Statists to play. Why? they have no funds of their own and zero ability to produce any. thus the real power behnd the thorne is found supporting both major components and playing them both for fools.

    C. The union bosses. Not ever worth the role or roll of a wheel were included by their creator as a way of controlling the masses. They are the kick stand at best and always found on the left side of the two wheel penny farthing contraption of socialist politics. Worth not much more mention than that as the real working class the private sector unions are shunted or bulldozed aside in favor of the major union roll of government employees and the newly freed status of money as free speech. will they stand still for such treatment. Probably. they are after all the largest flock of sheep in the arsenal of the left.

    All of the pun-ditz continue to hit around the X ring and miss the mark while the left wing of the left castrates itself (were they ever potent?) and become more like the empty bagged right wing of the left. Virile? ha ha NO. Only something fit for transgender out houses.

    Ain't life grand when they expose themselves without care?

    Isn't life paradoxical when they do so without let, hindrance, or worries about loss of power?

    Which brings me to you reading this evaluation? Which side do you support?

    and why?

    They are only condomns waiting to be filled and discarded or not used and emptied as earth shaking news of the day ...you thought that was rain? Think again. it's waht you are expected to swallow.

    Offended

    I certainly hope so.

    A non publication of the ExPat Express Editorial Edition for this week.
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