Fear

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I’ve been getting concerned messages from friends around the country asking me if our lefty colleagues have completely lost their minds these last two months.

Mind you, these are friends who are immersed in mixed politics circles, sometimes on half of a politically mixed marriage.  So I have no clue why they think I have special insight.  Well, perhaps because I lurk, unnoticed and long-forgotten in a lot of writers’ newsgroups, where someone to the right of Lenin is a rarity.

I know I’ve to...