Geez, ya THINK?

I've been watching this kind of thing for decades. First thing to remember is that it isn't 1939 anymore.

Yes, most union organizations at the upper levels (NOT the members) are hard leftist. Back when the dockworkers were striking out here a few years back, I looked at their union website before they hastily cleaned it up, and it had every damn far-left trope on it you could imagine, down to "Free Mumia." Not a joke - it was there. The only other place besides the top echelons of the unions that you can see such a concentration of raw, stupid Marxism is university campuses.

Again, this is in spite of the fact that large percentages of the rank and file across the gamut of unions are Republican, or identify themselves as conservative.

Here is a detailed article on the National Education Association. Here's a quote on the rank and file makeup:

^Knowing what we do about how various groups line up politically, it probably does not come as a surprise to see a labor union contribute so heavily to progressive groups and causes. The problem is that it should come as a surprise.^

^NEA members lean no further to the left than any other large group of Americans. The national union conducts periodic internal surveys to ascertain member attitudes on a host of issues. These surveys are never made public, and results are tightly controlled, even within the organization. The 2005 NEA survey, consistent with previous results, found that members "are slightly more conservative (50%) than liberal (43%) in political philosophy."^

^The 2009 Education Next-PEPG Survey of Public Opinion (see "The Persuadable Public," features, Fall 2009) asked public school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and merit pay. The survey found that more than one-third (37 percent) of public school teachers somewhat or completely support the formation of charter schools, a figure that rose to 43 percent when respondents were told that President Obama supports charter schools. When told that the president supports merit pay, 31 percent of public school teachers express some or complete support for these policies as well.^

Another article with a few numbers is here.

American Revolution? The values of the hard left are a bit different than the values of those who founded this country, although I have no idea what they teach about this in public schools.