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Why Labor is dying — an international perspective
2019-01-07
As seen from Israel.
[IsraelTimes] You can blame Gabbay, but I think this decline is part of a process that has been occurring across the world, over many years.

The Labor Party looks set to receive fewer seats in the Knesset than at any other time in its history. There is even the possibility, albeit a slim one, that it will disappear entirely by not reaching the 3.25% threshold.

Considering that a generation ago, this was a party which had completely dominated political life in Israel since independence ‐ and before ‐ this is an extraordinary development.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  My definition of middle class is that you can afford a full time employee (see Mary Poppins' employer).

If you haven't got one, you're working class, but you might disagree.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-07 19:39  

#5  Alan. Did anyone benefit from your labor in addition to you? You were working...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-07 17:50  

#4  Can't have a high trust social democracy without a nation and that means ending subsidised migration.

No demos, no nation, no society, no democracy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-07 16:34  

#3  EEK! why the picture of the one-eyed scottish imbecile?

Should have a warning on the title.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-07 16:32  

#2  Question MM, who is "the working person"?

I was a nail banger for ~10 years mostly independent. Was I a working person?
Then I changed careers and I did pretty well in the IT sphere for 30+ years by working hard for both large and small companies. Was I a working person? How about the Supervisors/managers for whom I worked, were they working people? How about the stock brokers/analysts who managed my 401K were/are they working people?


The world has changed from the days of Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, et.al. The definition of working people needs to change too.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-01-07 10:30  

#1  Well, here in America, Boofay and the C*ck Bros believe "labor" is diseased illiterates who might work once they get here. Dems want hollyweird money and GOPe will take whatever it can get. So who does "the working person" vote for?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-07 01:10  

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