>http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-03-31/cityofwarts.html/1/index.html
>...He found the American left similarly clueless. When he and his
>grad student friends read leftist journals from around the world,
>they found that leftists had a distinctly funny, irreverent quality
>-- except in America. "In European, Scandinavian, and Australian
>countries, the left was humorous and fun," he says. "When I came to
>the US, I found that the left been Sovietized: dour, lacking any
>sense of humor or irony." Even today, as he lectures around the
>world, he still finds that American leftists have a unique
>predisposition for dogmatic articles of faith and bizarre conspiracy
>theories. "Most of the craziest questions come from white American
>college students," he laughs. "There's nothing that says since we're
>leftists, we have to be insane."
Cue to Carrol Cox to tell us this isn't true.
Doug