Originally posted by tomw The working man has never been respected by Republican administrations. Why? Because their funding comes from the financial and corporate sectors who elect stooges to look the other way while working people, union people are robbed.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that.
I think the average Republican sees the economy very top down:
It goes something like this -
All wealth is derived from business activity
Business is run by businessmen
therefor all wealth depends on allowing businessmen do what they do best - create wealth.
The result of this viewpoint is to relegate labor to just a subset of business operations with no identity or importance outside of being just another cost to the business operation. Therefor whats good for business is good for labor.
Why do you think Republicans are so anti union? A union assumes that labor has interests in it's own right beyond being just another production cost. Anathema to the average Republican.
The sad part is that they are mostly sincere in this belief - why can't we all be just one big happy American corporation?
America Inc.