William Farrar on The Hartmann Report

[William Farrar]

I totally agree Daniel. The True Believer is one of my favorite books, I have a copy.

I don't know if I would call left wing extremists racists, but considering their anti Jewish partisanship (even among secular Jews they are close, though Jew is not a race

The problem is the true believing Marxists, Thom and I call them Tankies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

The word was coined to describe those English lefties, who supported the Soviets as their tanks rolled in to Hungary.

The 21st Century variant, found in the USA and around the world, are susceptible to any propaganda in which it is alleged imperialism, colonialism, genocide. Key trigger words for these vapid pseudo intellectuals.

I once was a regular donator to Democracy Now and The Intercept, and respected Noam Chomsky and the Magazine the Nation, until they proved to be "Tankies' when it came to Russia, whom I imagine in their mind's eye is still Marxist.

I still consider myself a progressive, albeit not a leftist. Because I still possess critical thinking skills, and form my own opinions, I don't jump on bandwagons, to be popular or spare me the trouble of thinking.

I nibble at pies and pizzas, without eating the whole damn thing.

[Kathy Hughes]

I also recommend the late Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics. It explains our moment also.

[Mmerose]

Thanks for the reminder: I just made yet another note to get this!