Capital and Labor are natural adversaries, not unlike buyer and seller. Each wants the most they can get from the other. The best protection for the buyer is competition, which is only possible under a free market system. The best protection, for Labor, is unions, but unions are at their lowest ebb since the 30s. And it's not just the bosses wha have depopularized orginized labor. The left has utterly failed to sell unions to most Americans. I know that unions are good for business and good for the balance that makes it work, but. in poll after poll,approval of unions was better than approval of Congress. But, not much better.
Say what you will, it's not votes from the landed gentry that elected,
Bush/Reagan/Bush. This is a conservative country and, if they have to choose between a socialist society and a capitalist society, they, consistantly veer to the right.