RIGHT TO WORK got its start in Texas in the early 1940's. It's the malignant creation of a particularly odious American, Vance Muse. According to Mark Ames at Not Safe For Work Corporation, in an article "You Hate "Right To Work" Laws More Than You Know. Here's Why", Vance Muse was quite a piece of work. Click on the link to get a fascinating explanation of the rise of the fascist Right in America.
Vance Muse was a racist political operative and lobbyist from the state of
Texas — the native habitat for all America’s vermin —as Satanically vile as
"Turd Blossom" Rove, a racist smear-peddler like Andrew Breitbart, only without
Breitbart’s degenerate heart and fondness for blow.
Here is a description of Vance Muse, creator of the "right to work" movement,
from a book by an old celebrated journalist, Stetson Kennedy, the reporter who
famously went undercover inside the KKK and wrote a tell-all in the 40’s:
"The man Muse is quite a character. He is six foot four, wears a ten-gallon
hat, but generally reserves his cowboy boots for trips Nawth. Now over fifty
[this is published in 1946—M.A.], Muse has been professionally engaged in
reactionary enterprises for more than a quarter of a century."
Among Vance Muse’s "reactionary enterprises": He lobbied against women’s
suffrage, against the child-labor amendment, against the 8-hour workday, and in
1936, Muse engineered the first split in the South’s Democratic Party by peeling
off the segregationists and racists from the New Deal party, a political
maneuver that eventually led to Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and at last a
Republican right-wing takeover of the South, and with it, the collapse of the
old New Deal coalition. Which worked out fine for Vance Muse, since he was a
covert Republican himself, serving "for years" as the Republican Party state
treasurer in Texas.
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Is it any wonder that the Right has a problem with Obama?
