Re: Re: further adventures in political surrealism
Nathan Newman wrote:
And the history of the drop in support for unions in the public mind was not some gradual process. It was tied to the rightwing attack on unions by the McClellan Committee in 57 and 58, with pro-union sentiment dropping from 76% before the hearings to just 50% afterwards. The destruction of union support with the rhetoric of “corruption” was a deliberate and successful campaign by the rightwing to destroy the union movement. You can argue that the failures of the labor movement left them open to the attack, but then you are accepting that the success of every other rightwing smear from McCarthyism to post-911 attacks on civil liberties won on its merits.
Man, is this the kind of reasoning you get with a Berkeley PhD and a Yale law degree? Nathan, that makes no sense at all.
Hope to see you at Fitch’s book event on Monday evening.
Doug