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Yes. People suffered and died to give us things we willingly gave away.
We didn't willingly give it away. The conservatives have been committing voter fraud and voting fraud my entire life. They've been illegally removing registers voters from the roles, and gerrymandering to hell and gone, for over 50 years.
I've personally seen my family fight tooth and nail to try to slow down the right wing authoritarian brain rot for over 40 years, and I'm unable to say that we were very successful.
We are fighting the richest, most powerful people on the planet. I'm afraid it may take multiple people successfully assassinating authoritarian billionaire media moguls before the ultra-rich even bother to take notice of the rest of us.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history
And I had never heard of it. Although I'm not American.
It's crazy, basically the 2nd American civil war. Miners storming Pinkerton machine gun nests is how the US got down to a 40 hour work week.
Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
They really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It's just a mixture of "Glossing over" and "Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it's the right one"
I think they mean that the "Wobblies" and the "Pinkertons" just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
And don't think for a moment that the companies have changed
If they thought they could get away with it now, they would. And if they had the opportunity to shift the balance of power so that they could murder strikers like the 'good old days', they wouldn't hesitate a moment. Vigilance and a revival of labor organization in this country is all that will prevent another Gilded Age.