We'll often talk on the show about how on so many different issues, the country, meaning

the voters are as far left as they have been oftentimes for as long as we've been keeping

track of certain metrics.

So as an example, we'll often say, well, when you ask people, should abortion be legal

in most cases, we have more approval for that.

Yes, abortion should be legal in most cases today than at any point during the row, we

rovy weighed era, which started decades and decades ago.

We talk about gay marriage, for example, we'll talk about well, should the government provide

some basic level of health care to everybody, regardless of ability to pay.

But another area in which public opinion has shifted towards the left over the last

many years that does not get as much attention as support for labor unions, labor unions

in the United States are experiencing based on this brand new Gallup poll that came out

under two weeks ago, which I did not talk about, but I'm talking about today, approval for

labor unions in the United States is at its highest point since 1965.

That's 57 years.

And when you look at the numbers, you now see that 68% of Americans currently approve

of labor unions.

That's a number that bottomed out at 48% in 2009 that got close to 68% in the late 90s

and early 2000s.

But you have actually have to go all the way back to 1965 where you see that support for

labor unions was at 71%.

Now this is data that we have going back a long way because Gallup has measured this support

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