The “right” of an employer to hire employees on terms he sets unilaterally (that being the only thing that can possibly be infringed by unions) seems to be missing from my copies of Locke, Jefferson, etc. Can you direct me to your source?
The weakness of strategic gerrymandering. You set up districts where you can fairly depend to win, but spread out so that you win the majority of districts after cramming all the other teams votes in fewer districts. So, you have maybe thirty districts, and can expect to lose half a dozen by huge margins, but win most all of the rest by narrow margins, but still win.
Trouble is, if the perceived electorate shifts even slightly, you might lose all of those by the same narrow margin, or even less.
Nah, you left out one particularly apropos to Moore:
Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Democrats controlling state governments in 2020 also has implications for the rest of that decade, since they’ll control much of the new Congressional district mapping. Already, the GOP hold on the House is dependent on gerrymandering (the Democrats got more total votes for their candidates); if that goes away (or, acknowledging that the Democrats are not saints, if the new lines are gerrymandered in the opposite direction) they lose the House with no realistic prospect of regaining it until 2032.
No, they infringe upon the right of both employer and worker to negotiate terms or even, in the case of closed shops, to even contract for employment on any terms.
Giving too much power to the small group of people who are workers in essential industries - that is, where a strike causes widespread hardship to the general population - is just as bad as giving too much power to the small group of people who have the most wealth. Both harm the majority of people for the benefit of a minority.
Of course, in an imperfect world, unions may sometimes be better than the alternative. But they are not an ideal, and far too many are corrupt organisations that don’t even help their members, let alone society as a whole.
Here is the major take down of the ‘bussed in voters’ foolishness (John Rogers is one of the creators of ‘Leverage’, which explains his reference to writing cons).
Here are details on their ‘inactive voter’ scheme, which may have (potentially inadvertently, but I don’t know if I would give them the benefit of the doubt) violated Federal law. Also discusses police intimidating voters in heavily minority precincts.
Demanding ID that groups which do not lean GOP are less likely to have
Making it harder to get ID in districts that have a lot of democrats
Making it harder to register voters
Eliminating early voting
Eliminating absentee voting
Taking away voting rights from felons
Purging registered voters which tends to target democratic voters
Reducing the number of voting booths in democratic areas
After Mississippi required voter IDs and required that they be obtained at the DMV offices, they closed the DMV offices in every county that was at least 75% black.
That was Alabama. (I live in Mississippi, and I’m pretty sure I would have remembered if the state government here had tried something similar. We do have a voter ID law, which is a barrier in its own right, but I don’t know of any attempts to close DMV offices after the law was implemented, and can’t find anything on a Google search.)