> I'm talking about people who are to the left of Dems, who nonetheless
> take seriously all the crap about what a megalomaniacal autocrat
> Putin is. You can say that Russia's pretty free, and that he turned
> around a country that was in a death spiral and they'll act like you
> beamed in from Mars.
If I didn't subscribe to this list and get info from Chris and Peter, I would be pretty clueless myself.
Neither the left nor the right can tell this story straight.
Joanna