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And for those of us with longer memories, the specter of hardliner Geissler calling the neolibs "diehard reactionaries" is priceless.

Indeed...

I think Geißler is indicative of a trend Oskar Lafontaine and WASG were, too: the shift of the Overton window, where what was once mainstream opinion turned hard-left or 'left-extremism'.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 01:30:56 AM EST
Could you develop that thought about the Overton window?

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 02:23:01 AM EST
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?

What is there to develop about it?

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 03:02:27 AM EST
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DoDo nailed it. It's the Overton window in reverse. Large parts of the policies that Geissler and Lafontaine advocate were a part of the mainstream West German political consensus up until 1990. Now they've been displaced to the fringes of political discourse.

"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 03:47:03 AM EST
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So they are "conservative" policies in the etymological sense of the word, and they are advocated by people both on the left and on the right, while neoliberalism is "progressive"?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 04:59:51 AM EST
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To a large extent, yes.

And what do you mean "they"? It seems to me we often find ourselves here discussing how we to preserve the activist social state against the neocon radicals.

"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 05:31:32 AM EST
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"they" are the policies.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 05:43:06 AM EST
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Oops. Sorry.

Reading too fast is a major cause of accidents.

"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 05:48:31 AM EST
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Too bad Germany doesn't have speed limits on the information superhighway.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 05:53:18 AM EST
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