Union density has continued it's steady decline and is now at it's lowest in 2023. Even under "Union" Joe Biden it keeps going down. This despite the fact that unions get far better positive ratings from people than they have been in the last 30 years. It's almost impossible to even form a union due to the US having some of the most anti-union labor laws in the world. While Republicans are worse, Democrats have tried their best to match the Republicans in their backroom support of anti-union forces and efforts since the 70s, and it's worked like a charm to destroy labor/working class power. Until these people are kicked out of the Democratic party, it will only get worse.
@40:00 that is a right-wing myth William is regurgitating. Shame on him. The government cannot ever be "locked out of money". The monetary system is a public creation, not private. All private banks are chartered by the state. When parliaments/Congress spend they instruct the central bank to mark up bank accounts with a computer. The money doesn't come from anywhere, it's a computer entry, the currency record is created ab initio when government spends, or when a bank lends. They are not using "tax payer dollars" LOL. There is no such thing. Tax receipts are destruction of currency (removal from circulation) not supply for the government. The tax receipts are mere accounting records. It was the biggest lie of Obama's to say , "Sorry folks, we've run out of money to bail out mainstreet." Such a massive lie. The government cannot run out of points on the central bank (FFED) ledger, so cannot run out of currency.
@5:35 there is no causal relationship there, it is a correlation. There is a common cause though, government policy. Policy has been dominated by the right-wing libertarians and neoliberals, a direct causal factor for both the GINI trend and declining union or wage bargaining power.
MAN'S KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS INFERIOR TO GOD JEHOVAH AND SATAN'S KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM . WHY DO I SAY THIS ? THERE IS NO WAY MANKIND COULD DO WHAT THEY DO , UNLESS INFLUENCED BY THE HIGHER POWERS , JEHOVAH AND LUCIFER !!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE IS JEHOVAH'S WILL . LUCIFER'S WILL AND MANS WILL . EVERY DAY , WE SUBMIT OUR WILL TO ONE OR THE OTHER !!!!!!!!!!! WHEN WE SUBMIT TO SATAN , WE DO HIS BIDDING . WHEN WE SUBMIT OUR WAY TO GOD , OUR CREATOR , WE DO HIS BIDDING . MANKIND HAS FREE CHOICE AND IS NOT A ROBOT , BUT OUR MINDS ARE SUBJECT ( influenced ) BY ONE OR THE OTHER . AN EXAMPLE ; CHRISTIANS COULD NOT COME UP WITH ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GOSPEL SONGS AND MUSIC EXCEPT BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT !!!!!!!!!!! NON-CHRISTIANS COULD NOT COME UP WITH MOST ROCKNROLL AND COUNTRY SONGS AND MUSIC EXCEPT BY THE INFLUENCE OF SATAN . THE HOLY BIBLE CALLS EARTH'S UNSAVED PEOPLE " the world " ! MOST OF THE WORLD IS BEING GREATLY INFLUENCED BY SATAN , ESPECIALLY THE RICH AND ONES IN POWER !!!!!!!!!! SATAN PUTS HIS EVIL INTENTIONS INTO THEIR MINDS TO DO HIS WILL , OR BIDDING !!!!!!!!!!!! THE REASON IS , FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE THE CREATION OF GOD JEHOVAH AND LUCIFER DESPISES US !!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WORLD WOULDN'T BE IN THE MESS IT'S IN IF JEHOVAH'S WILL WAS BEING DONE . JOHN 3 : 16-----FOR GOD SO LOVED HIS CREATION ( unsaved mankind ) THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON , THAT WHOSOEVER BELIVES IN JESUS CHRIST SHOULD NOT PERISH , BUT SHOULD HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! - PROVERBS 3 : 6-----IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE JEHOVAH , AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS !!!!!!!!!!!!!------------------------------Ernest E. Johnson
"A vote for a 3rd party is a vote for your worst enemy." When both bourgeois parties are, together, your worst enemy ... then your best bet is to not vote at all. Afterall, it's really all just one big property party, with 2 names. Or, as Gore Vidal said, "We have one party with 2 right wings."
Great video, thanks for sharing your insights. It’s refreshing to see a critique that is honest about the nature of racism white supremacy in the labor movement, and I hope this honesty leads to clear headed evaluations about what needs to be done to fix the problems we currently have.
law.ucla.edu/centers/business-law/lowell-milken-institute-for-business-law-and-policy/about/ Neo-Liberal E-CON privileging of the Private Interests over the Public Interest requires institutional reinforcement. Dr Domhoff shunts the Cold War blowback off to stage left... Although this talk is very useful on so many points political opposition is denied a voice to articulate and stimulate public discussion via corporate-captured mass media: aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/lowell-milken-institute-ucla/ Apparently We’ve Forgotten Who the Milkens Are Michael and Lowell Milken’s role in the rise of junk bonds helped make them rich. That wasn’t enough for UCLA to turn down Lowell’s $10 million donation-or even acknowledge his family’s checkered past. Nick BaumannAug. 18, 2011 10:00 AM Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Shifters Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa Media Discussion List
Such a BS from a professor of sociology. Just common sense crap wrapped in bs stats and fancy terms. No deep analysis of history. No mention if the federal reserve and the jewish lobby and AIPAC no mention of petrodollar control. This guy should be stripped of his degree
@@Dopaaamine27 That's pure bullshit. I'm sorry if you really believe in that type of conspiracy crap. Didn't you just watch the video? Did Domhoff ever mention some shady Satanist organization? Or is he also part of the conspiracy? There isn't a shred of evidence - and I mean decisive evidence, not paranoid speculation - that points to those facts. Freemasonry is plenty real, though its importance is mostly historic by now. Now most freemason organizations in the world are slowly decaying. There is nothing Satanic about them. They do have their own weird rituals and secret practices which are mostly symbolic in their nature. The Satanic accusation comes from Christian believers who were appalled by the fact that Freemasons use some Christian symbols & signs but in a different way. They interpret this "different way" by considering it an inversion - and this inversion should somehow lead to Satan. Which isn't true at all... Anyway it's a classic fabrication to demonize an organization perceived as an enemy or deviant. Proper Satanist organizations do exist though - there is a Church of Satan in the USA for example. However, they have absolutely no power and mostly gather some White thrash that is lost & confused. They organize weddings where everybody is dressed in black, listen to some death or black metal, and maybe occasionally kill a chick. Nothing worth focusing about...
Thank you for your work.......as part of my social stratification class, read your works, as well as several other books, also studied a lot of corp/board releases to see all of this in action.........this is indeed going down memory lane..........
So happy to have found your channel. I was a student of yours in the late 80's when I attended Stevenson/UCSC and always loved your classes and talks. This stuff is still so relevant today, if not more so. Cheers!
Joe Molinaro 1 second ago Joe Molinaro 1 second ago Sure...corporations runs with the U.S.A. and Europe and who better than those??....do you fools, think for a moment that politicians can do that better???.HA...just, some of you, and only some of you, may remember in Cuba in 1959, who just to run Cuba before?...the corporations, American and Cuban corporations, and one day, early in 1959, a bunch of guys, not in corporations, came to throw those out, and they did...and those bunch of guys, stayed to run Cuba...HA...what had been Cuba since???...so, you dumb guys, wants this mighty bankers/industrialist OUT?...really?...and then, JOHN DOE, comes to run the U.S.A???ha...not for a moment...so, I know, this mighty bankers/industrialist make a fortune, doing what they are doing, but at the same time, who are at the top of the world???...as far as I see, it's the U.S.A. and Europe....so, let me applaud, what this bankers/industrialist are doing and had been doing for the past century....just take a look, how humans just to live, prior to the 1900s...but I have my doubts if you guys can follow me...sorry....
***** NO, YOU ARE WRONG, MIGHTY WRONG...WHO TOLD YOU THAT CUBA IS IN BETTER POSITION THAN DOMINICAN R. OR GUATEMALA???HA, WHO TOLD YOU THAT??...CUBA IS WAY , WAY MORE POOR THAN THOSE TWO COUNTRIES, WAY MORE POOR THAN D.R. FOR SURE, BUT DON'T WORRY, CUBANS WILL BE WAY BETTER IN THE FUTURE, JUST BECAUSE BIG CORPORATIONS RUN BY THE U.S.A. ARE ON THEIR WAY INTO CUBA, IF NOT, JUST TAKE A LOOK...THE U.S.A. IS THE LORD AND SIR OF PLANET EARTH AND ANYWHERE THE U.S.A. GETS INTO, THINGS GET WAY BETTER FOR THAT NATION I N TERMS OF ECONOMY, BUT FOR SURE, AT A PRICE...SURE, THE MIGHTY U.S.A. WANTS SOMETHING IN RETURN, BUT IN THAT SOMETHING IN RETURN...THE U.S.A. WILL PAY YOU GOOD....
@Joe Molinaro .. you are delusional... USA socio-economic stats are a disgrace in comparison to other 1st world or developed countries, and in some indexes way worst than say, Somalia. Just an example: bad at math and science, worst educated workforce, highest child mortality rate, aweful income inequality, highest poverty gap, extreme gun violence (11.1 per 100,000 people killed by guns. You're more likely to die of a gun assault than a car crash, and you'd be safer in Thailand, Cambodia or Laos), no universal healthcare, 40+ years of stagnant wages (even though productivity has more than doubled), since 1985 became a debtor nation, and now it is the largest debtor nation in the world (all of US domestically owned assets cover only half of its foreign liabilities),.. and so on..
The turning point was not the election of Reagan, but the failure of the Carter Administration to deliver liberal legislation. Since 1976 a reactionary bloc has controlled Congress and ruled on behalf of corporate interests.
Not a lot new here. A reinteration of the economic war we lost. And a rewriting of history which is too kind to corporate America and inaccurate regarding alternatives. Now we need to find a way to take it back and change course. This guy seems convinced it cannot be done and willing to resign himself to surrendering our values and compromising our principles. I think this surrender is precipitous and ignores other options.
Hali Burley If the left was ever able to build a grassroot group with real teeth, the right would most likely kill them. I know that is an extreme thing to say; and in saying I believe the rich right wing have a lot of secret controls over the people in power, and secrets projects that will never be allowed to be discarded and dismantled by simply putting new people power. There is now a whole (dark) society hidden from the masses that can not be stopped, nor will allow itself to be exposed; they too want their Freedom to do as they have been doing for many many years.
Fear-mongering and nonsense. Corporate cons tell everyone to be afraid, be very afraid. So fearful people vote their fears instead of their values. 75% of Americans want a third party candidate who they can support. If these 75% vote for say, Jill Stein, then she wins. It is just that simple. Put her in the debates and she will shred Hillary or Elizabeth and Jeb. No contest. All we have to do is move the money and get her in the debates. The time is ripe. Sorry, but the bogeymen and demons heralded on Infowars and other silly (right-wing-based) entertainment programs are patently ridiculous. (We do not have cities built on the dark side of the moon and there is no huge conspiracy brewing in caverns beneath the earth) Cockadoodle.
