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You introduced left-wing politics into the modern comic strip.

Not that the left exists anymore. This is an essentially conservative country that had a left-wing fling in the 30's, during the New Deal, because everyone was broke.

You're acting as if the 60's never happened.

The 60's were more of a revolution in terms of clothing, music and language. You were allowed to curse. You just weren't allowed to redistribute wealth.

That strikes me as simplistic. The civil rights movement was about more than jeans, cursing and Joni Mitchell. It brought real social gains.

Yes, it made enormous gains, and then it ended up being a fashion statement. Look at the clothes kids wear today -- the baggy pants, the baseball caps worn backward, the hip-hop look. This has been going on since the 60's, when white kids picked up black language -- ''I groove on that! Too much! Tell it like it is!'' -- while reserving their inalienable right to white flight.

There has been much defection from the old left since Sept. 11 among writers like Paul Berman and Christopher Hitchens.

I found it quite a shock.

You may be the last unreconstituted leftist.

No. Fortunately, there are several million last leftists.

No, the '60s was also very much about politics and especially Communism being seen as something valid. The leaders of the Hippies and the Yippies, and the SDS were, almost 100% ( The one exception, that I know of, is Tom Hayden ) RED DIAPER BABIES ! The " Black Power " movement was also financed and helped by the same bunch, to some extent. Though the Black Panthers were actually little more than a gang of thugs, they too preached ( nay, demanded ) the redistribution of wealth and took it into their own hands ( by theft ! ) of doing so.

Just as the Marxists/Communists/Socialits of the late 1800s had attempted to lure Americans with the idea of " FREE LOVE ", do your own thing, and strange dress, for " the greater good " , so did the Hippies; with more success. What, after all, were communes, if NOT Communism in small letters ? If you don't believe that the '60s wasn't anything more than a sexual/dress unheaval, then you should read ALL of David Horowitz's books and talk to those of us who lived through those times as aware adults.

And FYI ... the " War on Poverty " was a late '60s REDISTRUBUTION OF WEALTH , writ large and mandated by the president of the USA. So were many new welfare programs and handouts, that had never before been in existance. Oh, and what would you call Afirmative Action ? Hmmmmmmmm ?

The left no longer exists ? It doesn't ? There aren't any stinking Commies/Socialists still in America now ? ARE YOU KIDDING ?