It may be that the center is already being populated by nutty right wingers. Surely many consider Obama a socialist and scary because of that, who are even in the middle of the spectrum in the U.S.. Obviously even those who consider it good that he is a socialist must have a nutty right wing view of socialism. With a whole spectrum of nutty right wingers in the U.S. how can they all be in the Republican party?
Cheers, ken
----- Original Message ---- From: Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Fri, July 15, 2011 2:38:43 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Democrats drop the collective bargaining issue in the recall campaigns
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?
>
> 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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