<html> If the lack of civility, listening skills, and kindness routinely displayed on this and many other lefty lists (and elsewhere, of course) is any indication how people would treat each other after the revolution, I hope it's a long time in coming.   Aside from the obvious male-pissing-contest aspect of the whole thing, I understand that a lot of it is frustration at being so marginalized and powerless, but jeez.  Couldn't we at least treat EACH OTHER with a little more generosity? [Believe me, there are many people who would be flabbergasted to hear me, of all people, say this.] Cliff <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I'm simply being practical.  Unlike you, I don't regularly lead the broad masses to triumph, etc. etc.; if anything like that were to happen, it would be a most astonishing and alarming accident, and I would look for somewhere to hide.  But instead, it appears that I belong to a segment of the Left which is as despised by the rest of the Left, as the Left as a whole is despised (or ignored) by the general population.  Merely by virtue of being an anarchist, a pacifist and -- phew! -- a vegetarian, I've been accused of links to Hitler, Stalin, and Osama bin Laden; of spitting in the faces of the bereaved and on the graves of the dead; and of being, worst of all, a _loser_.   I'm not complaining -- the situation has many humorous aspects -- but clearly, with that kind of popularity, I've got to be very, very sneaky. -- Gordon</blockquote></html>