A Perfect Storm Unfolds Under the Collectivists

A Perfect Storm Unfolds Under the Collectivists

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Some things are true for collectivist communists and individualist capitalists, for all people regardless of who they are. For decades now, Americans have been inundated with propaganda that the only entity that cares for them is found in the Democrat Party, as collectivism has been promoted as America’s savior and individualism and individual liberty has been castigated as “selfish” and self-serving; but while there is no shame in looking out for one’s own self-interests, there is plenty of shame in it, when you put the entire population and the nation at risk in the process, which is precisely what the International Longshoreman’s Association is doing, as it just went on strike today, October 1st 2024, just four and a half short years after the supply chain suffered a catastrophic break and economic repercussions the nation is still suffering under.

Unionists and collectivists claim to be for “the little man” and “the working man”, but in reality they are only for themselves. They are special interest groups primarily seeking to make gains for only those who are associated with them, and to hell with all others.

Early last month, the president and chief negotiator of the Longshoreman’s union, Harold Daggett, detailed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=822WNvhQHKI [15 min 24 sec mark] how he would shut the nation down unless his demands were met, as he stated at one point:

“I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does.”

Yes, it certainly does sound like Daggett and his people stand for the working man and all Americans, as one can readily see and understand that such a tactic will hurt all Americans, some more than others. But these collectivists make anywhere between $85,000 and $200,000 a year, depending on how much overtime they work, while the average salary in America is approximately $56k; and their demands are both unreasonable and unrealistic, as they now demand “a 77% percent pay raise increase over six years” and chafe against new technology for fear of lost jobs. They all have nice little nest eggs set aside and can weather this shutdown infinitely better than those making only minimum wage who will suffer during this strike, as shelves empty and many products become impossible to find and all products’ prices rise to new exorbitant highs.

The cost of this strike will be approximately $4.5 billion per day, according to investment bank J.P. Morgan, and for each day, one can expect a week to recover, compounding the problem exponentially the longer it lasts. You can bet your last bottom dollar the corporations will pass along this loss to consumers in higher prices for everything.

Americans concerned over individual liberty would never do this. We understand that the best solutions are those that only serve all Americans equally.

The nation is currently suffering some of the highest cumulative inflation it has seen since the 1970s, the supply chain has never fully repaired itself after 2020, illegal aliens are taking jobs and housing from regular U.S. citizens, and we are just emerging from the death and destruction of Hurricane Helene, which makes us all wonder how much more the nation can take, as this perfect storm unfolds.

This strike could well be a tipping point, if it goes on too long, and whether Daggett intends to hurt the average American or not, that’s exactly the result, one which will grow more devastating the longer the strike continues. And it’s happening at a time when America has no leadership whatsoever under a sly, disingenuous, ignoble despot wannabe who has basically said he’s done all he can for the victims of Helene and has not made the slightest effort to do anything to stop the strike; it’s as if Joe Biden and the people within his regime are gleefully anticipating the end results, much as would a nation’s enemies-from-within, if they were following the Cloward and Piven playbook to crash a nation’s system by overwhelming it.

On Sunday, September 29th 2024, Biden told reporters that he wouldn’t intervene in the strike if it did occur, as it has, noting:

“It’s collective bargaining I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley.”

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