Open Thread

Legion, you are picking iconoclastic individuals who opted out without ever trying to opt in. One was playfully angry and one bitterly so. But I think you need to define the hypothesis you are advancing — what and who do you mean by “Left” and who today, exactly, do you think follows or is sympathetic to those guys? You seem to want to paint with the same broad brush that you claim is unfairly used to paint various strains and movements within what is generally lunmped together as the right. Even if you were to separate a real left from mainstream liberals, I think you’d be hard pressed to find even a statistically significant minority who have read anything by Ayers, let alone been influenced by or even think like him. I think you need to be clear, sociologically speaking, about who you are talking about generally and how a handful of iconoclastic rebels (some long dead) are rerpesentative of the collective state of mind you are trying to describe.

Thank you Legion…

Legion, this is not time to try to trigger a pun fest

Mark Rudd was a math major.