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  I'm glad you are of the correct view that fracturing the Democratic party would play into the hands of the GOP
context: Biden didnt say he'd be a pro-Union president. He said hed be the MOST pro-union president. The bar is so low, he can crush a strike and still be one of the most pro-Union presidents because, well, they rarely are in the last 80 years. >
  
  Not sure arguing for a technicality is a great move here. If labor doesn’t trust Biden anymore, I doubt you’ll win them back via technicality >
  
  Democrats have lost a lot of labor's support since the 70s, particularly in manufacturing and trade unions, and it's fucking infuriating they don't do more to address this. >
  
  They know who lines their pockets and who does not. And it's not manufacturing and trade unions. >
  
  Yea it's wild to me the amount of republicans that are in unions but hate them for some reason? Something like it makes the products more expensive. >
  
  Labor unions have long ago stopped functioning in the ways that made a real threat to the capitalist world order. This has come to fruition, in part, through a complete breakdown of what little class consciousness the working class in the U.S. has ever had. And you see that with conservative union members of all stripes. >
  
  The handling of the rail strike issue, to put it lightly, greatly irritated many on the left, and will likely remain in the thoughts of many for quite a while.
  Furthermore, and this is just from what I've observed as a member of the Seattle DSA, it reignited debate over whether the DSA should continue to operate within the Democratic Party or break away entirely.
  I've taken the position of believing that a breakaway would just cause us to be spoilers and play into the hands of the GOP, but the anger is, from my perspective, understandable.