Mikhail should swing by the DNC next time he's in DC for a touch of nostalgia
Truer than you think my friend. The Dems are using the far left as their rallying point just as the Commies used their died-in-the-wool party members and cadre. Both are emotional, dedicated and unreasonable in their approach to any social problem. Just listen to Waters or Connors in the middle of one of their diatribes on the floor of the House and you can see the shadow of a dedicated commisar right behind them. There is no other way but their way, any opposition is evil and an enemy of the (welfare) state. Most of them got their training directly from 30's radicals who had close ties with the pre-war soviets and basked in the intellectual fantasy of one world communism without perceiving the real world of oppression and totalitarianism that it represented.