"The bugaboo word of ‘socialism' is fading," Wolff told Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear on Tuesday. "It's not performing the scare function that it was designed to perform, because people understand that, know that they've been there, heard that, and they're not going to be fooled yet again."
Wolff told hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou that the attendees' reactions signal that times have changed and that the town hall response reflects "how [people] have felt for a long time."
"The stupidity of trying to scare people that if there's a national covering of everybody with health insurance that they will ‘lose something' when their employer-based health care is replaced by a government one counts on people's ignorance," he added.