From the guy who used to talk about the secret prison camps in our country that nobody knows about? Whatever.

For most of my adult life the American Left could be counted on to take the Soviet or communist side in any foreign policy issue. Most of us here are old enough to have watched it happen.

If the government of a nation was communist (usually a Soviet ally), fighting against an anti-communist revolutionary movement, the Left sided with the government. If the revolutionaries were communists against an anti-communist government, they sided with the revolutionaries.

There were no exceptions to this. Not in Asia, not in Africa, not in Central or South America, not anywhere.

Whether any of these revolutionaries or governments were murderous thugs made no difference. Often they both were. They would pick the side that was communist, and support them.

This was accompanied by complete blindness to the abuses of communist regimes. This may be where "progressives" first learned to obliterate their own minds.

When I think about it, this blind support goes back further than my lifetime. Before WWII, the American Left was antiwar until the precise moment that Hitler and Stalin broke up their alliance and ended up on opposite sides. Then they became pro-war.

I have an awful lot of evidence for my position that this true. What have you got for yours besides the usual debate technique around here of calling me names?