[lbo-talk] Democrats drop the collective bargaining issue in the recall campaigns

[// ravi]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> 
>> It is not only cowardly, but also
>> suicidal - with the unions gone, the Dems will be reduced to a junior
>> affiliate of the Republican Party if they survive at all.
> 
> Adolph Reed nailed it years ago: the Dems' strategy is to seize the center and let the Reps become a collection of right-wing nuts. 
> 

That was probably the strategy of Hitler’s opponents in Germany. :-) The trouble for us citizens is that there is no such thing as “right-wing nuttery”. There’s just right-wing
all the way down to the gas chambers, exerting it’s constant gravitational pull on the centre. Yes?

	—ravi