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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My grandfather was born in the sticks, one of 15 kids, and was 18 when his father died. He was on his own. He worked hard his whole life and was proud of it. But that doesn't mean he thought life ought to be a "winnowing process." He once told me that the only two organizations that ever did anything for him in his life were the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Democratic Party, though I imagine he'd toss the BPOE in there if you asked.
Did he work hard to get ahead? Sure. Does that mean he thought an unregulated free market was a glorious thing? Of course not.
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Mine thought differently, and he saw unions and Democrats as loathsome sorts who wanted to screw with vehicle that allowed him to have a decent life and are on a soft branch of an ideological continuum including Socialism, which took over and later destroyed his native country.
My Irish grandmother'd break my fingers before she saw me with a Union card.
YMMV.
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