I ask this because I’ve recently gotten into creating a union for my work place and noticed that North America is really the only place where a Labor or workers party never took off.
It would be probably be doable to unite the unions into a political party similar to the UK Labour party after the world wars. The major point is, is that the party would have to be purely an economic party with each individual member deciding for themselves how to vote on social issues.
I’d say that is a fair assessment. The average US leftist is probably more right than they care to admit. Or perhaps closeted in their views, for whatever social capital they feel they gain from it. Maybe either/or/both.
I’m not sure you understand, unless I’m misreading your comment. The average blue collar American worker is right wing. He votes Republican, is against Illegal immigration, doesn’t drink bud lite because trans people, won’t drive an EV, etc etc. You get the picture.
The average union man isn’t a worker, he’s just an administrator. A glorified middle manager. He’s leftist and isn’t blue collar. His job is to collect union fees and harass workers into paying up. A mundane champagne socialist. He supports all those left wing things, and paying him is paying for more of those things actual workers hate.
I need to think about that. It seems regional.
I’ve known union bosses who are more left wing than the average leftist, but corruption in every decent institution is an issue. And I think it’s by capitalist design.
Seriously, most people might talk trash about what everyone else is doing, but it seems to me that the more people have basic needs met, the less time they spend worried about their neighbors’ business.