Dear MAV
EXTREME LEFT IN CONGRESS???????
While generally understanding your point, we have not had a leftist in Congress since the Palmer raids in 1919, when, after over 300 comunists, socialists and anarchists were elected to office in the US, (from mayors to congressmen)tens of thousands of American leftists were put in concentration camps and jails. Most Americans don't know about the Plamer raids, which mark the begin of the end of political freedom in this nation. A good book with an acurate picture of this time, is Roughneck, about Big Bill Heywood. The period of overert oppression of leftist thought in the US only ended, after the McCarthy era, when newspapers declined in this nation and TV completely red lined leftist thought - when was the last time you heard Nom Chompsky comment on politics on air? When was the last time the Socialist canadate was included in debates... my dear dear MAV I have to chuckle when I hear peole speak of leftists in government in the USA.
Larry