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In reply to the discussion: There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of what Sanders goals are [View all]Quixote1818
(28,928 posts)I could have expressed myself better but his actions pretty much pulled the rug out of unions in a way that lead to their demise:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/reagan-vs-patco-the-strike-that-busted-unions.html
However, a lot of Democrats were already abandoning Unions before that as this article points out:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/28/1638599/-Whatever-Happened-to-Unions-Ronald-Reagan
My main point was that the Democratic Party got to a point where it was no longer bound to Unions and started getting the bulk of its funding from the banks and Wall Street. When this shift started taking place it was the beginning of the long term demise of the middle class and a shift in things Democrats had traditionally fraught for.