09.03.11
The Psychopath Vote — Ted Nugent’s Anti-Labor Labor Day America
Ted Nugent has many beliefs. And he’s not a courageous enough a musician or lyricist to fit ’em into his songs. He also knows his new smallish audience of bottom-out-of-sight white assholes in wife-beaters and motorcycle gangster colors wouldn’t have it.
Not because of the actual political content. But because, in songs, they would sink a set where all anyone wants to hear is “Cat Scratch Fever” and “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.”
So here is today’s Nugent bit at the Washington Times, for the second year running, an anti-labor column on the Labor Day weekend. Which takes stones and no heart.
Most people reading it won’t perceive the double paradox this weekend.
Ted performs one of his summer tour wrap-ups in Detroit. He’ll be performing at the DTE Energy Music Center in Clarkston, Michigan, today.
Unions are no bargain for Americans
The real purpose of Labor Day is a day for the Democratic Party to celebrate. Labor unions and their members are solidly in the Democratic camp. At every Democratic campaign rally, Big Labor is there.
The National teachers union (NEA), one of the nation’s largest unions, is a rock-solid supporter of the Democratic Party, as is every other large union. The NEA cares more about maintaining taxpayer-provided benefits for its members than ensuring our kids get a world-class education. On the NEA’s watch, test scores have plummeted and dropout rates have skyrocketed.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) has been a solid supporter of the Democratic Party for decades and has had automobile management under its thumb. The end result: Automotive plants have closed all around country. What was once the envy of the world, the American automobile industry has been totaled.
Al Capone-wannabe Richard Trumka [etc] …
Public-sector employees should be banned from joining a union …
The result of the labor movement has been a disaster. Labor unions have not sustained labor but rather have destroyed it …
Ultimately, you get what you bargain for – an unemployment check.
The Ted message: He despises unions, school teachers, and all public sector workers. Unions are responsible for mass unemployment, not the economic collapse of 2008. The unemployed deserve it because they supported unions.
Published on Labor Day. In the evening Ted plays Detroit, where the audience obviously won’t have read this column or hear him cursing them from the stage. Or they’d tar and feather him.
While Nugent’s name recognition in Michigan is still significant, there’s a reason he left it for Texas years ago.
I feel good mocking Ted Nugent’s mediocre “I Still Believe” in the previous post.
Related: Ted’s banishment from a big Michigan summer festival years ago.