H'okay so. A year ago I didn't give a shitfuck about unions except they were cool for the people who were in them, they helped. But I wasn't in a union and wouldn't ever be and so didn't care about them at all.

Now the girl's in a union so I hear about unions and I hear about how "unions are constantly being threatened by the gov't" and so on and I'm trying to understand it better because it sounds like MADD who got the .08 ABV legislated for drunk driving and then looked around and realized if they wanted to continue to exist .08 couldn't be enough. Because otherwise their point was done and they'd accomplished their goal.

I'm not saying I believe unions literally are MADD in that way. Girl is concerned a lot about "right to work" and that sounds valid. But part of me's a skeptic and I can see she's very, very bought into unions and I am trying to learn more so I don't sound like a jackass when I ask her how she knows that the people leading her union aren't just filling their members' heads with scare stories to convince everyone that not only do unions 100% need to exist, but their power needs to continue growing and is constantly threatened all the time. Because of course the people in power over an organization want the organization to have more power. And of course it serves them if their members think that power is constantly in danger of slipping away.

So break it down for me, huh?

P.S. I found this 5 part horror short series (whatever they call the ones that aren't a full season and never go longer) that's British and satirizes Big Brother on Netflix, it's got zombies and it's called Dead Set. You might get a kick out of it. Or at least you could watch the first 30 minutes and tell me if that's what it's really like at BB behind the scenes. :D