Right-wing socialists?

When looking at the Goodman and Krauthammer columns on Saturday (March 21), unabashed liberal Goodman made it plain what Krauthammer apparently still doesn’t seem to have gotten; precisely, corporate entities are on welfare, just where they always wanted to be.

How do you “unfreeze the credit market” or come up with a verifiable “rescue plan” if, as Goodman notes, AIG, that got billions of tax dollars, was fully intent on spreading it around to other banks that also got billions of dollars in federal bailouts?

Watching “Bill Moyers’ Journal” on PBS and his interview with an avowed socialist, a Professor Davis, who is a creative writing instructor; and reading the two columns, I was struck by an unwelcome idea.

The American Communist and Socialist parties of the 1930s, that came to dominance in the labor and feminist movements, were likely more transformative to this nation’s future than first realized. Most “conservatives” today have benefited from the leftist insurgency that Davis described.

As have the business interests who look to government (and therefore the taxpayers) to help them at the first sign of trouble. Socialist government activism is the basis for both Krauthammer’s and Goodman’s arguments.

Joan Harman

Dalton Gardens