And What About Obama and Unions?

Well, we know he has as much use for them as he has for all of the other traditional Democratic constituencies, which is none at all.

After all, union members aren't part of the plutocracy Obama represents.

On unions and dems, please remember two gross things; (1) in late 2007 he assaults Edwards (actually pro-labor) as a tool of "the big special interests that control Washington") because Edwards was getting advertisement support from SEIU (as if big labor was the big power in the country...absurd); (2) in 2008 in his economic advisor the neoliberal jerk economist Austan Goolsbee told Canadian officials to disregard Obama's campaign rhetoric (to Ohioe workers) about trade law reform ...basically Goolsbee said "don't worry, this is just the fake populist crap you have to say to all these sorry ass proletarian shlubs; he's really safe for global capital." Well that promise has been born out. They haven't lifted a finger for EFCA. And labor leadership seems not to care; just pathetic.

We are in danger of losing it all, and it took a "Democrat" to do it.  The neoliberal poison in the Democratic Party began to take hold in the late 1980s following the defeat of Dukakis,  with the belief that Democrats needed to be more "pro-business"  to get the needed moolah to compete with the corrupt GOP and therefore ultimately be as corrupt as they are.   The cynical belief was that the traditional constituencies like unions, liberals, and minorities would vote Democratic anyway because they had nowhere else to go, so it was seen as essential to try and make headway into the big biz constituency of the GOP.   Many critics of the current incarnation of the DP look at the Democratic Leadership Council as key to this, but I'd say the poison went far beyond a pseudo think tank.  The DLC was actually a product of southern Democrats like Bill Clinton in  designed to help the Dems to be more competitive in national elections.  Granted, it was and is pretty damned neoliberal, but I believe an outright takeover by fake Dems has occurred with the election of Obama.  He was never vetted by the media--on purpose--but as longtime critic Paul Street notes, the plutocracy vetted Obama well.  With his election, these crooks basically own both political parties.  We are now in danger of losing everything because these plutocrats or parasites, as I call them, are basically anti-American.