I didn’t know about you until I read something in CP attacking you in pretty strong language by Jeff St. Clair. Since I gave up on the left including CP and many other traditional leftist institution. The reason is simple. I’ve found that most of even the “real” left who are anti-war, pro-civil liberties and anti-oligarchs still believe that the mainstream media present a fairly accurate view of the world and accept the basic Narrative which includes, btw, American Exceptionalism (AE) or at least a peculiar version of that.

I have found more openness on the “right” among libertarians, alt-right, and of all places, paleo-conservatives like Pat Buchanan and his great publication *The American Conservative* to alternate views of history that do not accept as gospel whatever the NYT or NPR choose to lay on us directly from the desks of the National Security State.

I urge all real lefties to check out the research available in many books and vids on media study particularly Robert McChesney. At any rate, without a firm historical background and a lack of affection for AE the conventional left has nowhere to go other than the insanity at the radical center which is, in fact, real conservatism. As Gore Vidal quipped — we have one party (the property party) with two right-wings. Sadly the left that rejected the mainstream Democrat narrative has now joined the other right-wings by being stuck on a narrow ideological platform that neither truth nor change seems to improve.