Donald Trump is going to regret this. There’s no way around this mistake.
As Trump’s personal guest at the RNC has thrown the whole event into chaos.
The first day of the Republican National Convention was largely uneventful. It was full of standard soulless GOP zombies who will literally say and do anything to stay relevant within the Republican Party. Sadly, this has been a mark of the RNC for years now. That being said, this year was a little different and had some noteworthy distinctions.
There were some new faces who were certainly welcome additions to see representing the Trump movement. Celebrities like Amber Rose, former partner to the extremely popular music artist Kanye West, made surprising appearances. She is no bulwark of the Christian conservative ethics and morals, but it’s always good to see people change their minds and rip off the blue-colored glasses that the Left uses to brainwash everyone. She is an example of such a person and she explained this in her speech endorsing Donald Trump.
Some of the other speeches weren’t so great to see. While it’s extremely important that the GOP gets behind the Trump movement which is characterized by being America First and truly a movement of the people and for the people, there was one speech that felt extremely counter to that. And the individual who gave the speech was specifically invited by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump invited Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to deliver a fairly lengthy speech to those in attendance at the RNC. The speech had some redeeming parts, no doubt. The problem, though, is that he represented an infection of the Right with union thuggery that has no place in a free society.
Mr. Sean O’Brien started out noting how rare it was for a Teamsters representative to give a speech of any kind at the Republican National Convention. “It’s an honor to be the first Teamster and our 121 year history to address The Republican National Convention,” O’Brien said at the beginning of the speech.
He also immediately gave credit to Donald Trump for picking J.D. Vance as his running mate and highlighted Vance’s selfless service as a Marine. From that point on, though, Mr. O’Brien infiltrated the RNC with far-Left union propaganda that, unfortunately, has made an impact on the GOP and her newer constituents.
“This too must change, and I want to be clear at the end of the day, the Teamsters are not interested if you have a D, R or an I next to your name, we want to know one thing, what are you doing to help American workers?” Mr. O’Brien said during his speech. You would be forgiven if you thought he was actually pro-worker. He isn’t. He went on to say how much unions are important to defending the American worker.
“Labor law must be reformed. Americans vote for a union, but can never get a union contract,” he said at one point during his shocking speech. He went on to rail against companies who want to protect themselves from union activity. He called such protection as “economic terrorism.”
“Companies fire workers who try to join unions and hide behind toothless laws that are meant to protect working people but are manipulated to benefit corporations. This is economic terrorism at its best, an individual cannot withstand such an assault.”
He also made it sound like he was extremely unsatisfied with the idea that there would be any Republican who is anti-union and anti-free work. “There are some in the party who stand in active opposition to labor unions,” O’Brien said during his speech.
The Dark Reality of Labor Union Abuses of Workers
It’s completely understandable that workers want to defend themselves and their families from abusive work relationships with overbearing bosses and suits who simply don’t ever think about what it’s like to be someone below them or have quickly forgotten.
That being said, unions are very rarely ever the way to go. The reality is that unions end up making it more difficult for workers to represent themselves and their own interests, and workers are left having a middle man who they serve on top of serving the big suits in whatever industry they work in.
Probably the only people who mismanage money worse than the federal government are union bosses who suck workers dry of their hard earned pay to create a labor union elitist class. This money is then funneled and converted into dark money overwhelmingly used to fund extreme, far-Left politics and campaigns.
A senior official with the Center for Union Facts, a firm covering research on labor unions, noted just a few weeks ago when the announcement that the Teamster boss would be speaking at the RNC was made that the fact remains that union revenue is simply a vehicle for radical Leftist politics.
“One speaking engagement doesn’t change the facts,” the Center for Union Facts shared with reporters in an official statement at the beginning of this month.
The official also noted the fact that almost all Teamsters political advocacy donations fall into the hands of Leftist non-profits and Democrat politicians. “Ninety-nine percent of the Teamsters’ advocacy dollars go to left-wing causes and workers whose dues fund this partisan posturing aren’t being fooled.”
Sean O’Brien does not represent the freedom that Donald Trump and his allies should be searching to promote at every turn. It is a mistake to prop up big union thugs in the name of trying to get every single vote possible. Not only that, but it’s a strategic mistake considering that about 60-70% of Teamsters members are voting for Donald Trump anyway. Giving union thugs a platform at the RNC serves no purpose but to leave a bad taste in the mouth of the tea party conservatives who saved the Republican Party back in 2008 and 2012 from going down the dark path of Mitt Romney-type conservatism in the future. Without that wing of the conservative movement, there is no Donald Trump in 2016.
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