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Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me (jacobin.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

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