We really need to get on the same page as to what, exactly, we mean by "far left." We seem to have different ideas of what that entails. Most of those I consider on the "far left" I would image look at everything Obama stands for and does as too far to the right...by quite a bit.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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