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> > Usually, the government concentration of more power and the suspension of > more human rights requires a foreign threat, so I doubt Tucson will be as > marketable a justification as 9/11....but I'll certainly be glad to > consider > your argument on it... > > ML I didn't say that there will be a crackdown on human rights. I said that there would be an attack on the welfare state fundamentals, including social security and medicare. Obama is a very slick politician. That is why, unlike Paul Krugman, MSNBC and others, he is not stigmatizing the Republican right. Basically he is trying to unite with them against the American people. In order to push ahead with this alliance, he needs to blunt the attacks from the left--like Krugman on occasion, Bob Herbert and any other MSNBC host that has a grain of integrity. Not to speak of people like Bernie Sanders. So this "civility" and anti-hate speech mood works very much in his favor. Even though nobody could ever accuse Sanders of hate speech, you still have pressure on him and any other liberal Democrat to get behind the president, whatever the scoundrel has up his sleeve. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
