"A little background: I am a proud leftist... "
What's to proud about?
I mean, Edison invented the light bulb. Reagan won the Cold War. American GIs liberated Europe and the Far East,
and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq. Ray Kroc built up McDonald's and Bill Gates created Microsoft. Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web.
And I'm a father.
stuff to be proud of.
Meanwhile, Communism killed 100 million in the 20th century,
and American Welfare State liberalism saddled us with a host of societal ills from higher crime to cycles of poverty. Socialism has failed as an economic system time and time again. Free enterprise is better. Now the Left, having been disproven in economic realms, tries to debase the culture as a backdoor way to power. The Left is a pimple on the heinie of global civilization, contributing nothing but bad, old, disproven ideas. So what is there to be proud of?
BTW, a sanity question:
Do you agree that Alger Hiss was a spy?
Do you agree that the Rosenbergs committed spying and treason?
Do you agree that it was a good idea to put them in ol' sparky, as their spying helped Stalin build the nuclear bombs that he used to threaten us?
Bump!