Imagine if you lived in a closed-shop state. You would have to join a union for many jobs, and you would have to pay to that union dues and other verious fees, and that union would then turn around and give a lot of that money to a political party. Guess which one that would probably be? The Democratic Party. The Dems have tons of money rolling in from unions without the input of the individual union members, and I really feel like there's something wrong there. Many larger unions basically act as wings of the Dems and many people who vote Republican are forced to indirectly donate to the people they don't want in office because of this.