October 29
GUEST: Margaret Poydock, Policy Associate for the Economic Policy Institute, and member of the policy team that focuses on initiatives for building a more just economy, talks about Trump's dangerous attacks on workers' safety, wages, and rights.
The Economic Policy Institute’s mission
This interview was done right before the election. And this is the most obscene cartoon I could find. We have been through four years of Trump's vileness, and I think we all feel slimed.
It is just the right time to talk about unions too. If the nation had strong unions, Trump never would have captured the white working class. Unions focus workers' attention on what is going to improve their lives, rather than on racial hatreds and tinsel patriotism, the spewings of vile demagogues like Trump.
We will be here again if we rely on a Democratic Party more enamored with corporate cash than public good. In four more years of Hillary/Obama sellout of the working class, we could well be seeing another fascist movement, but this time so much stronger.
The players are all there. Let's remember that the majority of white voters went for Trump by as much as 57%. It was people of color that made the difference, and succeeded in putting Biden in the White House. All the subsequent talk about not defunding the police might just lose the only thing the Democratic Party has going for it.
So rather than helping centrist Democrats, we should be forming unions, the only way to win back enough white voters to really change the neoliberal system.
