Labor justice and reform conflicts with the interests of corporations who fund the Democrats and Republicans.if the Democrats wrapped their arms around LABOR, JOBS PROGRAMS, AND INCOME REFORM, theyd never lose another election for the next 50 years. People come to America to work and those topics appeal to Americans of all races and creeds.
The issue is aligning to labor means wanting smoke with the Corporations and they need those sweet corporate dollars for elections (and to be a bought and paid for politician ) so they cant adopt too radical of a pro Labor posture.
That's why I respected Bernie. Dude wasn't about to take any big corporations money and he was for the people. His ideas were a bit too radical for the centrists though.
I'm upper middle class but I sort of like the idea of a UBI