Why Progressives must force participation: Unions in decline
This is why Progressives love to use the Government: they want to force people into doing things they wouldn't otherwise voluntarily select. I don't have a problem with people wanting to form unions (though union tactics are another story entirely), but I do have a problem with people being forced to join unions as a condition of work. But I don't think ANYONE who works for government (receiving taxpayer funding) should be able to unionize at all. All that does is encourage lawmakers to get in bed with government employees unions to grow government at the expense of everyone else - which is precisely what we've seen in the past 30 years especially.
My issue is with the causal vectors. I think other factors caused right-to-work and people to vote Republican. I don't think right-to-work caused people to vote Republican.
The even bigger problem is in unions of governmental workers. I look back at the strike of Air Traffic Controllers under Reagan. Government workers have zero right to refuse to work because they want better pay.
And it's even worse if they're using gov't money (mandatory union dues at a gov't job) for the purpose of lobbying for more gov't money. So the gov't is spending money to hire someone to convince it to spend more money.
But that's not the issue I was I talking about. I was asking how mandatory union dues cause people to vote Democrat. I could see them being correlated but not causal correlated.
That's my point. I wish they had provided figures showing union spending accounts for 90% of political advertising. If that fact were true, the whole thing would make sense.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list...
Note that unions donate almost exclusively to Democrats.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...