It is not unreasonable, for example, to hold employers liable when they force employees to work in unsafe conditions. It is in fact quite a good idea to prevent the formation of wage suppressing cartels. (I might note in this regard that it is safe to assume the Communist Party in China acts, effectively, as such a cartel, intended to abuse workers, and enrich what can only be called a Capitalist elite).
Democrats, in pointing to this history, are not wrong. There are some good things in their past. But those Democrats got what they wanted. In 2019, they have nothing to offer the American worker but the mass importation of labor competition, which is, if you think about it, something ONLY Big Business would want. They can’t form cartels, legally, but the Party of the Worker, supposedly, is allowing them to dilute wages by altering the quantity of the supply of labor permanently.
In an historical reversal, only Republicans are standing against this, and that largely to prevent what would amount to a national gerrymandering which would cause us to lose national elections in perpetuity.
But it is also the right thing to do by the American worker. There can be no question of this.
And the comment I intended to make was this: without Democrats most labor laws would not exist as they do. Without Republicans, slavery would not have ended until some time in the 20th Century.
In the 19th Century, the Democrat party was the States Rights, grumpy old men party. The Republicans were the energized, pie eyed, often young, idealists.
We are still, in my view, the idealists. The Democrats talk a good fight, but by and large they are the party of getting rich on the make, something which is made easier by making government larger and thus more corruptible.
A few meanderings.