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Phillips talks about the "hard left" as though there is some means by which they have a voice that reaches the masses. Unfortunately, liberals in the U.S. sometimes find themselves being shouted down or ridiculed for being communists. I imagine the actual communists are rather marginalized. There is no Limbaugh or Beck equivalent among communists in America.
The biggest threat to the Tea Party movement is a good economy.
He should also decide if this shooter was among those on the hard left or if he was a liberal. Painting him a liberal is a tough sell. It's not often that champions of human rights, social justice, and tolerance go off the deep end like that. Anarchists? Revolutionaries? Perhaps.
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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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