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While I agree with you, your point is kind of ancillary. It's not now, nor has it ever been, my argument that the left is obliged to abandon social issues in order to court labor.
My point is that I made a simple observation of fact and was then called a fascist apologist for having done so.
I personally don't know how we reconcile the social conservatism of blue-collar Americans with the labor progressivism that so many of them obviously want.
I just think that it has to be talked about and that ignoring it or calling union activists, like myself, fascists, is not productive in any way shape or form.
There has to be a solution, and pretending like the problem doesn't exist and that people like myself are fascist-adjacent simply for having pointed it out, is complete bullshit.
I agree with that. There's no need to create unnecessary hostility between people with compatible goals.