Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumTeagan
(62 posts)but I can't find any labor for Hillary websites.
All those leadership of unions are for Hillary, but I know the rank and file aren't.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)When even labor union head honchos are out of touch with their rank and file, it's telling.
Of course, some union heads might be afraid she'll cut them off at the knees if they don't support her. It's widely known that the Clintons keep a long "shit list."
Cleita
(75,480 posts)for Hillary and absolutely scoff at Bernie.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... that is going on to solicit their support as well as individual politicians now.
The problem with labor unions or other big liberal organizations is that, while it might be more easy for big money to try and manipulate and buy influence with the leadership of such organizations, they can't really "buy" all of their membership very easily, and the membership then sees when their leadership is being manipulated and then knows when to yell that their democratic process for where the union stands is being violated and speaks up.
Unions are one of the few organizations where there really is a democratic rule of those groups of many people, making it one of the few sets of "endorsing entities" that is hard to *buy*, and I think these controversies in effect show what is happening in so many other places, but we can't see the inner decision making that candidates are faced with as that is not public like the process of union leadership representing its members is.