[lbo-talk] competence, not ideology ... again

[John Thornton]

But doesn't the scary "socialists are bad" meme seem to be falling flat?
It does to me.
While the Dems have tried to distance themselves from the socialist tag, 
in this red state anyway, the socialist scare has no traction that I can 
see so it's quite unnecessary.
The huge Wall Street pay-off really has helped to tamp down the fear of 
socialism in my opinion.

John Thornton

shag wrote:
> actually, the sucky thing about this incident is that, typical of dems,
> everyone did their best to distance themselves from being  a socialist
> therefore reinforcing the use of red-baiting and condoning the idea that
> no one in their right mind would want to be or be associated with
> socialists.
>
> in re this being same old same old (discussed on another thread and
> nothing charles responded to). i don't think this is like other years. the
> scary socialist meme may have been embraced by fringies years before, but
> this year, with a supposed moderate republican running, we have the obama
> is a scary socialist meme front and center as the republican candidate's
> primary message.
>
>   
>> CB:
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>> Actually, socialists are glad to be identified with spreading the wealth.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be funny if Obama wins, and that means the majority are ok
>> with some "socialism" ?
>>
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