Why The Hell Are Unions Backing Republicans? - The Folly of Leftist Secularism

Other than wishing they'd said "Some Unions" because the situation is a lot more nuanced than they are dealing with here, I think this is an important issue.

The problems of ideological drift and corruption of unions is symptomatic of the problem of any leftism that is based on secular interests instead of an egalitarian moral foundation.  When union members are disinterested in anything other than the size of their paycheck, that's a problem, unions either serve a higher moral purpose, that of egalitarian democracy and society or they will always devolve into what they're becoming. 

I no longer believe secularism can sustain egalitarian democracy because I've seen so much of this kind of thing.  Every single group which has been Marxist or is influenced by Marxism devolves into this kind of thing.  Look at their average lifespan*.  And the unions, as compared to political organizations, are a minor problem.   When I look at the secular left (you can safely subsitute the words "atheist", "hostile to religion" "hostile to Christianity" or other such terms) a lot of them went immediately bad as they focused on their ideological obsessions and picayune stands on unimportant crap (getting the Green Party listed on ballots is obviously more important to a lot of them than keeping Republicans out of office), I have totally lost faith in even the good will of the secular left. 

*  The ACLU is a bit of an outlier in terms of life span, except that so much of what they do, like the complaint about the unions in this piece, have enabled and empowered Republican-fascists, on a pose of principle which is transparently of economic value to their backers in the media and the entertainment industry.  There are few groups that paved the way for Republican-fascism and, in the fullness of time, neo-Nazism more effectively than the ACLU through their "free speech - free press" stands.