These groups have only been silenced by the MSM. The MSM is not communist. It is not socialist. It is not hard leftist. It is liberal. They exclude almost as much stuff from the left as they do from the right. They are toadies to the status quo which is left-leaning corporate welfare state "capitalism".
The hard leftists don't consume enough stuff for them to generate enough ad revenues. The hard leftists don't support crony capitalists. The hard left has little or no voice in the MSM.
All the leftwing nut jobs like Noam Chomsky and the DEMOCRACY NOW! DEMOCRACY NOW! crowd are screaming against Obama and his continuation of the neocon policies of Bush and Cheney, but their voices do not fit with the program.
We need to identify the evil we are fighting. The evil is left leaning fascism not whack job academic communism.
That sounds exactly like my step-son. Who, sadly, is a military officer. It's not just sad. It's a DISGRACE.