I reject the notion that the public is the same thing as a union in the manner you are describing.
Again, I am literally not saying that they are. I very clearly say that, in some significant measure, the former is the product of the latter. That is the word I used. Not "the same thing".
Don't do these silly bad faith, straw man characterisations.
> Don't do these silly bad faith, straw man characterisations.
I reject the association literally or otherwise.