Imagine a United States without a Labor Union Movement

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That seems to be where we are headed if current trends continue -as they seem likely to.  Without labor's money and muscle power, how does the Democratic Party expect to make gains nationally while competing in a landscape structurally shaped (especially in the wake of the FEC vs. Citizens United decision) to favor Republicans? 

[Frodo]

For me it's like trying to imagine a wealthy Cleveland or a hilly Ohio or a conservative Obama or a radical pacifist Richard Nixon. The world as I've known it would be so dramatically different that I cannot predict at all what it would look like.

Please feel free to make your point minus the sarcasm.  

[Frodo]

For me it's like trying to imagine a wealthy Cleveland or a hilly Ohio or a conservative Obama or a radical pacifist Richard Nixon. The world as I've known it would be so dramatically different that I cannot predict at all what it would look like.

Please feel free to make your point minus the sarcasm.  

What was so bad about that? I never said the labor movement was all bad!?

My apologies -I thought you were making a snarky reference to the measly 5% unionized rate nationwide (in the private sector), as if to indicate that to all intents and purposes, we are already living in a nation without viable unions.  Thus rendering my thread redundant.