The facts of Bisson's life and mine or very different, but emotionally the following quote from him speaks for me too:
>"Once in my twenties I tried (probably foolishly) to explain to a favorite aunt why I was a radical, a Marxist, an all-around anti-war hippie radical. She nodded and said, "you are still a Democrat though?"
>I said sure.
Later in the same interview with Bisson:
>Q) How do you feel about anarchism?
>A) "As an idea, I like it. But I'm a big government guy. I'm a TVA baby. Still a Democrat".
Again, these are not to be taken as intellectual analysis. But they represent real emotional truths for some leftists of all political stripes, and probably do influence our analysis.