(#6072) Everything is political to workers!

      I know what it is to be uncomfortable. I feel the tension of it as it appears in context with my speech. I do not want to alienate those who I know little about and am becoming more acquainted with. There is a nuance of behavior that is like a tightrope and I am careful with each step. Yet I do not allow myself the luxury of not letting everyone know that I am a good person who works very hard at liking everyone. Some are impossible to like and I do not spend time with them out of choice. But most others at least get to see the better side of me when in my company as a rule. That includes my advocacy for policies that raise the boat we are all in.
     Most of us go about our days doing what we must at the direction of those who pay us. We just want to live normally without being the target of things that have nothing to do with merit or effort. Yet that isn't the case for still too many. There are unwritten rules followed by too many in power that drive prejudices and biases. For whatever underhanded reason this is not acceptable. Which is why the politics of things is a real value. We have laws that protect those who are treated in manners outside normalcy for all. To keep those laws in place we need to understand which political party is the catalyst for them.
     We democrats have and always will be the political party of the working man, woman, and yes, even animals. We are constantly looking for ways to improve and enhance the working and living experience. Our economic system of capitalism demands that we trade labor for resources. Only democrats understand that the working class is vulnerable to the hiring class and therefore must protect workers from the hiring class efforts on their part to diminish workers compensation. One glaring example of this is the federal minimum wage. It has been at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Every time we democrats try to raise this limit to a less poverty induced amount the republicans defeat those efforts. Tell me, if you are a worker are you really voting for the worker compensation suppressing republicans?