Please, those of you on the left: stop calling people with my political beliefs “radical.”  I’ve said “radical” where others would say “reactionary.”  The point is, I don’t want to sound like an extremist at either end of the spectrum, but increasingly I feel I’m being pushed in those directions. I was particularly affronted by the declaration of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s intention to run for a second term.  This scion of liberal tolerance said, “And the people of Massachusetts didn’t send me to Washington to roll over and play dead while Donald Trump and his team of billionaires, bigots, and Wall Street bankers crush the working people of the Commonwealth and this country.” Oh, you mean the Wall Street bankers that gave $64.3 million to Hillary?  Never mind. One reason I feel outside the norm is that I can’t associate modern American democracy with its present...(Read Full Post)