The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics. The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement
WHAT DO WE DO NOW? the crisis of the American working class and what we can do to fix it America is a country where citizens have more civil liberties than anywhere else on the planet, yet we are politically voiceless. We have a very narrow political spectrum; a multicultural, socially radical but fiscally conservative, center right party of the billionaires (the preferred party of that class) and an openly racist, socially and fiscally conservative far right party of the billionaires. The Democratic Party has its mass social base among a portion of the nation’s affluent professionals, corporate executives, small business owners and the more privileged and affluent layers of the working class – among African American and Jewish professionals, executives, businesspeople and affluent workers, support for the Democratic Party is almost unanimous, due to the open racism of the leaders of the other major party The Republican Party has it’s mass base among a portion of the nati...