As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.
  • xmunk
    303·
    6 days ago

    Fuck man, to get back to a US president that actually cared about labor you probably need to go all the way back to FDR. JFK is debatable - RFK (not the junior fuck) would have probably been a strong advocate but JFK was more centrist.

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      291·
      6 days ago

      We really gotta stop using “centrist” instead of pro-corporate. That’s just establishment sleight of hand to make pro-corporate policies look like the defaults.

      • xmunk
        3·
        6 days ago

        If you like - personally centrist, in my mind, just means “Doesn’t stand for shit except self enrichment”

        • Raymond Shannon@lemmy.ml
          1·
          6 days ago

          At best, a centrist indirectly supports the status quo, which in our time is Neoliberalism, at worst, they’re ghouls underneath that mask.

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        Especially because the corporate support increases from center to right. Libertarians want to eliminate regulations on businesses, and the far right wants to accelerate inequality by lifting regulations on, and subsidizing the overhead for, the wealthiest corporations.

        I agree that pro-corporate makes far more sense than centrist. “Not far-left” would also work, but it’s clunky.