ext_306469 ([identity profile] paft.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-03-20 08:49 pm (UTC)

p: What do you imagine would prevent the rollback of pretty much every labor reform of the 20th century if unions vanished?
s: Public opinion? Shame?

Hey, let's legalize murder, rape and robbery! Surely public opinion and shame would do their jobs to prevent such crimes!

Right?

s: Internet trouble-makers such as you and I? An angry mob?

Riggght. Those corporations are reading these threads and shaking in their boots!

An angry mob will do nothing more than give them a rationale for violence.

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