What? Democrats are all about the AFL-CIO. It's the Republicans who are anti-union and won't raise the minimum wage. "American's Origin Story?" What is America's Origin Story? Is it the story of Manifest Destiny and the natural superiority of the white race, or is it the disgusting slaughter pen that is the truth? Well, people may recoil at the disgusting slaughter pen, but the Americas had an origin well before 1492. It's simply that Europeans discount anything that happened before they arrived.