Is Hillary pro Union?

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38. Okay.

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It was a blue color union. I don't recall which exactly. It might have been the communications workers union.

Just saying something doesn't make it so. Precisely. But that doesn't stop any of you from claiming the rank and file supported Sanders. That chart talks about votes by the rank and file, consultation with the rank and file. What makes you or Glen Greenwald thing you have a right to decide how unions you are not members of conduct their endorsement process? Those organizations don't exist to serve random Bernie supporters or people who earn 6 figure salaries from corporations. The organizations on that chart aren't even all unions, and it provides no evidence of the views of the rank and file. Who exactly do you think is the rank and file of the Brady campaign and Planned Parenthood? You think the Brady Campaign has an obligation to endorse someone who voted repeatedly against the legislation they initiated? In what world does that make sense? PP should endorse someone who said nothing while they were being by the right wing video campaign, whose statement to the media that week related to MSNBC programming decision rather than women's reproductive rights? Who has gone through 12 or more public debates and townhalls without nary a mention of women's reproductive rights?

The conflation of unions and advocacy organizations makes zero sense. It shows what can only be a deliberate refusal to understand how any advocacy organizations work, probably because those doing the criticizing have never been involved with any of them. What is clear is that Sanders supporters and Sanders himself thinks he is owed loyalty, despite the fact he has done absolutely nothing to advance the interests of any of those populations. Oh, he gives lots of speeches, and he and his supporters clearly believe speeches more important than policies that actually have an impact in people's lives. Unsurprisingly, those organizations didn't necessarily agree.

What is clear is that Bernie supporters attacked every single union, civil rights organization and activist, progressive congressman, and women's rights organizations that failed to endorse Bernie. They targeted PP, some allying with pro-choice groups to cut off donations and funding to PP and with it the only reproductive medical care available to poor women in great swaths of the country. They attacked the mother of Trayvon Martin, other Mothers of the Movement, Dolores Huerta, for God's sake, John Lewis, the Congressional Black Caucus, Al Franken, even Elizabeth Warren. The enemies list is a veritable who's who of civil rights organizations and activists. Unions were of course on the hit list because they failed to promote the class interests of the self entitled "progressives" rather than their members. Whether or not you all think Clinton is pro-union doesn't really matter. The unions themselves decide that.

If you aren't in any of those unions, you have exactly nothing to say about who they endorse. It is precisely none of your business, or mine. I understand that concept is incomprehensible for those certain that their views and their rights take precedence over everyone else's, who find it impossible to acknowledge that a view or political position that differs from their own could possibly be legitimate. Such is the nature of self-entitlement.