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

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 12:38:43 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:08 PM, // ravi wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Maybe, maybe not. Remember the Nazis thrived on the fact that there were militant left wingers that scared a bunch of the population - and they hijacked their socialist rhetoric. Nothing like that now, really.

Of course, there's a bunch of the population scared by what they imagine are militant left wingers.

-- Andy



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