Because they know they will never endorse or fund a rethug.

So union support really only matters in the primary. In the general it's considered a given, and that means it really doesn't have to be earned. So it isn't- a fee strong words about how a candidate values organized labor, the turn around and have to actually "earn" that corporate money.

When union men and women bought the Reagan lies, it was the beginning of the end. It's not about abortion, it's not about gays, it's not about endless wars to force our ideology on others and it's not about Jesus. It's about fair, safe and decent working conditions, job security and a living wage. No one's going to give us a place at the table, we have to get together and take it.

Solidarity!

One of DU's leading Teacher's Union advocates told me, on her driving a Toyota: "I don't have to support every union..."

Well, neither do I, I guess?

Can you blame people for buying cars that generally speaking get better miles per gallon than a lot of American Cars ?

Don't get wrong I do think people should buy Union Made Products made by American Workers. But at the same time with wages the way they are getting a car with better mileage just makes financial sense in the long run.

But rather I was stating that for the most part Toyotas and Hondas just tend to be better products for their price than what a lot of what many American Manufacturers offer.

Well unless your talking about Tesla. Which as far as I understand it makes an electric car comparable to any thing a foreign manufacturer makes.

As to Education, do I think we should cut costs on our schools through privatizing education ? Hell No

I think charter schools and other private non-post secondary educational institutions are a bad idea.

Quite frankly I think it's time we stop seeing the education of young children in terms of monetary cost and realize that the more we invest in their education the better we and they'll be in the long run.

have no moral ground to demand support of others.

If you subscribe to the morality of the marketplace as to MY livelihood, why shouldn't yours be subject to the same analysis also?

Situational solidarity has been as been as much a corrosive effect on the working class' vitality as the outright attacks by plutocrats.

I simply meant that with the economy and wages in general being crap people now have to spend their money far more carefully.

That's it. I wasn't making a moral judgment. Only pointing that because our economy sucks right now people are trying to pinch every penny they have. Whether in the long run or the short run.

I don't subscribe to the morality of the marketplace nor am I crapping on the idea of solidarity.

If you look up my namesake you'll probably get an idea of where I actually stand on the matter.

The American dream has been morphed into a corporate nightmare. Those who can't see it are either as quick as a sack of hammers or blessed with the moral and ethical scruples of Milton Freidman.
I think most of them mirror the latter, although unlike him, they would lack even the chutzpah to publicly admit it. Just quietly working and feeding the mouths of corporate dreams while publicly screaming how much respect they have for the Constitution, the rights of labor and the environment.