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

[Wojtek S]

Ken: " 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."

[WS:] I do not think it is true of the so called center in the US.
Those who call O "socialist" are structural equivalents of the
Hitlerjugend or the Red Guards in Maoist China - basically a bunch of
youngish zealots and thugs doing a hatchet job for an established
political party.

The center is more libertarian than nutty right - they are
individualistic and believe in a the business model and free market,
and they are suspicious of anything collective and public - be it
unions or government.

Wojtek