With Obama, it’s the Communism, Stupid
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | April 23, 2008
Obama admitted to exchanging ideas with Ayers on an irregular basis but did not say what those ideas were.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to deflect a question about his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers by saying that he “engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8-years-old” and that he was now a professor and a neighbor. The real issue is whether Obama shares Ayers’ communist views. Obama admitted to exchanging ideas with Ayers on an irregular basis but did not say what those ideas were. But we know that Ayers, rather than just being a 1960s “radical,” was a member of a Marxist-Leninist communist group.
[The American Thinks adds to this with Another Obama Marxist]
The Weather Underground, or Weathermen, wasn’t just home-grown and domestic in nature, although it had evolved from the so-called Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which laid siege to college campuses and tried to take over administration buildings. Their openly proclaimed goal was world communism and they had links to hostile foreign powers.
“We’re revolutionary communists,” Ayers himself said in 1969.
The FBI said that the Weather Underground had more contacts abroad than the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA.
Which brings up another so far unmentionable aspect of Obama’s background?the role of his childhood mentor, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. This is the hard-core Soviet apologist who filled Obama’s head full of anti-American thoughts at a tender age.
About Ayers, Obama said that he’s not somebody he exchanges ideas with “on a regular basis.” What ideas? And does that mean he communicates with him on an occasional basis? We need more questions and answers.
But in a posting on the far-left Huffington Post website, Ayers’ brother, Rick Ayers, accused Senator Hillary Clinton of McCarthyism for daring to comment on Obama’s ties to this communist terrorist when the subject came up in the April 16 Democratic presidential debate. Such a charge of “McCarthyism” is designed to intimidate not only Clinton but the media.
Does the phony charge of “McCarthyism” prevent the media from exploring the more critical issue of Frank Marshall Davis’s influence on Obama?
The Davis connection is essential to understanding why Obama would exchange any ideas at all with Ayers. At this point in his life, after he had moved from Hawaii, where he listened to Davis’s Marxist “poetry” and anti-American and pro-Soviet rants, Obama was receptive to the kinds of “ideas” that Ayers would offer to him. The media should demand to know what those ideas were.
The False Veneer
Obama has been clever to appear bipartisan and moderate, despite a very liberal voting record. He let his guard down in a big way when he not only endorsed but sponsored the Global Poverty Act, funneling a massive amount of foreign aid (by one informed estimate $845 billion) to Africa and the rest of the world, perhaps as partial reparations for slavery. It is curious that Obama doesn’t talk about this bill, which is on the verge of Senate passage, and it is strange that the major media don’t mention it, either. It is a potential budget buster that sheds light on Obama’s worldview.
The “exchange” of views with Ayers and others of his ilk may also shed light on what Obama might do in other areas, such as the critical field of education, where the federal government has assumed a larger role. It turns out that Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, another former communist terrorist, are now specializing in the education and the raising of young people. They even have a book coming out on the subject.
Obama himself seems to have some strange ideas on child-rearing, having brought his young children to hear Sunday sermons from a pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who has exhibited anti-American and anti-white tendencies and sentiments.
The Foreign Connection
For his part, Ayers wasn’t just a terrorist; he was a communist terrorist aligned with and manipulated by Moscow’s communist apparatus, operating through Cuba, against the United States. Many members of the group traveled to Cuba, sometimes to meet with the Vietnamese communists, and others went directly to Hanoi, North Vietnam. One of their stated objectives was to prevent the U.S. from stopping a communist takeover of Vietnam. They succeeded, with the acquiescence of a liberal Congress, which cut off U.S. aid to the South Vietnamese government, and more than 58,000 American soldiers died in vain.
Senator John McCain was an American prisoner of war being tortured by the North Vietnamese communists while Ayers and his comrades were giving aid and comfort to McCain’s torturers.
The FBI was desperate to apprehend Ayers and his comrades because they were operating with foreign support and direction and the dozens of bombings they carried out between 1969 and 1975 did an estimated $100 million in damage. A policeman had been killed in San Francisco by a bomb planted by the Weather Underground at a police station. Seven others were injured. Eight were injured in the Weather Underground bombing of the New York City police department. Fifty-nine policemen were injured in a riot the Weather Underground promoted in Chicago.
If anything, ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos was too timid in his questioning of Obama during the April 16 debate. Here’s how Stephanopoulos put it:
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A gentleman named William Ayers, he was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that. And in fact, on 9/11, he was quoted in the New York Times, saying, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.’ An early organizing meeting for your state senate campaign was held at his house and your campaign has said you were ‘friendly.’ Can you explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?”
A “gentleman” named Bill Ayers? The only reason he’s not in prison today is because the FBI employed allegedly illegal break-ins as part of their search for members of the group. FBI officials thought the break-ins were justified on national security grounds but terrorist lawyers would have had any charges against them thrown out.
Some of the terrorists, of course, did go to prison. Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an October 20, 1981, armed terrorist assault that left Nyack, New York Police Sgt. Edward O’Grady, Patrolman Waverly Brown and Brinks guard Peter Paige dead. A website, memorial and scholarship have been created in their honor.
David Gilbert also went to prison for his role in that assault. He co-authored the SDS booklet, “U.S. Imperialism,” whose first page includes a quote from the Communist Manifesto. He wrote the book, No Surrender: Writings from an anti-imperialist political prisoner, which includes an endorsement on the back cover from Ward Churchill, the disgraced college professor who achieved notoriety for comparing 9/11 victims to Nazis.
Other titles from the “SDS lit list” of June of 1969 included, Which Side Are You On? US History in Perspective, Cuba vs U.S Imperialism, and Cultural Revolution in China. SDS literature regularly referred to police as “pigs.”
Hillary Clinton, during the debate in which the subject of Ayers came up, meekly noted that Obama “served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position.” Notice how Senator Clinton referred to “Mr. Ayers,” after Stephanopoulos had called him a “gentleman.”
In rebuttal, Obama noted that “President Clinton pardoned or commuted the sentences of two members of the Weather Underground, which I think is a slightly more significant act than me serving on a board with somebody for actions that he did 40 years ago.”
So both of them have something to answer for. And so does George Soros.
The Soros Connection
One of the terrorists pardoned by Clinton was Linda Evans, who became a “Soros Justice Fellow,” named after the controversial left-wing billionaire, George Soros, who spent millions of dollars to defeat President Bush in 2004. She was given a Soros grant to “increase civic participation of former prisoners.”
This is the same Linda Evans, according to an FBI report, who said that during a trip to Hanoi in 1969 she was shown an anti-aircraft gun, cradled it in her arms, and “wished an American plane would fly over.”
For her part, Dohrn in 2004 was advertised as a featured speaker at the Baltimore branch of the Open Society Institute, a group funded by Soros. Her topic was discipline in schools.
You can see what they have in mind for America’s youth in how Chesa Boudin turned out. He was raised by Dohrn and Ayers because his real parents, Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, had gone to prison. Chesa Boudin, who went to Yale, where he was a leader of the Yale Coalition for Peace, was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and is a big fan of “The Venezuelan Revolution,” which just happens to be in the title of a book that he co-authored that is sympathetic to the brand of communism being promoted by Hugo Chavez. He reportedly lived in Venezuela so he could support the Chavez government. “To our fathers and mothers, who brought politics to our lives,” says the acknowledgements. They sure did.
Chesa Boudin is also an editor of “Letters From Young Activists,” a 2005 book about a new “movement” for “progressive social change” that includes a preface from Bernardine Dohrn, who praises the “young militants” for trying to change the world. The book includes an endorsement from convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal and gives thanks to “lifelong activist and educator Bill Ayers.”
“Dear Dad,” writes Chesa Boudin in a letter published in the book. He tells his father, convicted and incarcerated terrorist David Gilbert, that “Che Guevara would have described your revolutionary spirit as guided by love.”
It turns out that Bill Ayers’ brother, Rick, who accused Hillary of McCarthyism, is also an “educator.” He was a teacher at Berkeley High School, where he developed a program that sent students to foreign countries like Cuba and Mexico to learn about “social justice.” The author of a book about teenage slang, he has teamed up with his brother and Bernardine Dohrn to edit the forthcoming book, Zero Tolerance, advertised as an argument against using tough discipline in schools.
Apparently, school officials are just supposed to let student troublemakers have the run of the place, like the SDS tried to do on college campuses.
The Obama Youth Movement
An objective observer might conclude that Ayers, Dohrn and their comrades are now dedicated to creating a new student and youth movement, like the one they participated in which eventually developed into a full-blown terrorist organization that killed our fellow citizens and tried to eliminate the “Thin Blue Line” of police separating us from the criminals.
In this new crusade, they not only have an inspiring leader, Barack Obama, who attracts young people with his promise of “change,” but a moneybags named Soros, who has funded causes such as rights for convicted felons and legalization of dope.
“I have very high regard for Hillary Clinton, but I think Obama has the charisma and the vision to radically reorient America in the world,” Soros recently told Judy Woodruff of Bloomberg Television. “I think that he has shown to be a really unusual person.”
On April 8, according to Politico’s Ben Smith, Soros hosted a dinner that spawned a new group, Progressive Media USA, which plans on spending $40 million to defeat McCain’s presidential bid and ensure the election of the Democratic candidate, which Soros hopes will be Obama.
After Hillary’s attack over Ayers backfired and led to charges of McCarthyism, Senator John McCain brought it up, noting on ABC’s “This Week” program that Ayers was an “unrepentant terrorist.” At the same time, McCain said he would not question Obama’s patriotism.
But the patriotism of Frank Marshall Davis can certainly be questioned. And Obama should be asked why he referred to this pro-Soviet communist in his book only as “Frank.”
[see also, Obama’s Communist Mentor and Obama and the Drive for Slavery Reparations]
AIM Columns | By Cliff Kincaid
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at cliff.kincaid@aim.org
Imagine if someone like Hillary Clinton were found to exchange ideas with David Duke on an irregular basis. Would the media conclude that they were exchanging cooking recipes?
Democrats, Terrorists, & Communists – oh my!
I think that Obama is Russia’s favorite chocolate chip cookie and Hillary just wants to bake a Jewish pie for Hamas!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
Remember the Red Scare in the early 20th Century, in which the US government found several Russian KGB spies who had infiltrated our government? Well, Robert Hanssen proved that this RED SCARE never left the government. Democrats such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the Kennedys, and most leftists have been selling the US out to George Soros and KGB agents all throughout the 20th Century in order to curb the oil and petroleum kings from having global dominance. In order to gain power for the communists, democratic leftists had aspirations to turn the US government over to foreign powers, as the actions of the Clintons proved during the 1990s when they sold the U.S. to the U.N. and the communists.
Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for more than 20 years. He is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.[1]
Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park[2] near his home in Vienna, Virginia, charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.[3] On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in federal court.[4][5] He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without parole. His activities have been described as “possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history.”[6]
Robert Hanssen served the Clintons for 8 years, selling our secrets to Russia. And let’s not forget Hillary’s recent prosecution of her Chinese campaign finance manager who was part of the Chinese Military!
Democrats should have been dismantled as a party a long time ago. And now, commmunists, terrorists, and democrats are all working together to bring down America and Israel – so it’s time for us all to stand up and JUST SAY NO!
Obama also fits and connects with this paradigm shift, just like every other democrat!
In order to gain power for the communists, democratic leftists had aspirations to turn the US government over to foreign powers, as the actions of the Clintons proved during the 1990s when they sold the U.S. to the U.N. and the communists. Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for more than 20 years. He is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park[2] near his home in Vienna, Virginia, charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.[3] On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in federal court.[4][5] He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without parole. His activities have been described as “possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history.”
Robert Hanssen served the Clintons for 8 years, selling our secrets to Russia. And let’s not forget Hillary’s recent prosecution of her Chinese campaign finance manager who was part of the Chinese Military! Democrats should have been dismantled as a party a long time ago. And now, commmunists, terrorists, and democrats are all working together to bring down America and Israel – so it’s time for us all to stand up and JUST SAY NO! Obama is also part of this paradigm – on the Islamic front.
http://en.wikipedia.org wiki/Robert_Hanssen
Okay, type in Robert Hanssen on google and it will give you the full scoop.
DEMOCRATS are all in on it!
They HATE oil and petroleum rich Republicans, which is surprising, in view of Joseph Kennedy’s oil history, in partnership with Raymond Kravis.
Joseph Kennedy was oil rich and father of the Kennedy family
Raymond Kravis, father of Henry Kravis, KKR was his partner.
If you think that only Republicans became oil rich, the democratic left became oil rich too. However, the RED SCARE conspiracy wss all about Russia KGB infiltration to transfer American Sovereignty to the UN so OPEC nations conspiring with Russia could gain POWER over energy policy.
This is a war for energy dominance, pure and simple and you can be 100% certain that the democrats are not looking out for America’s interests. Obama’s aspirations are for ISLAMIC OPEC, just as the Clinton paradigm was for communists.
sunstartmf33. I refuse to accept all the conspiracy theories you and a lot of others bandie about in a myriad of blogs including your own. There are just too many people involved for almost any to be real. Where are all the whistle Blowers as you must realize that for any conspiracy to be real and successful there must only be a min. of conspirators involved and all must be extremely dedicated. America would seem to me to be one of the last places any conspiracy can work especially over a long period of time. That said I will concede political corruption by some individuals or combination of when they are financed and bribed to make concessions to groups countries and individuals based on a quid pro quo understanding. If I am correct it has less to do with ideology than just plain greed and lust for political power. Finally conspiracy theories by definition are just that theories because almost none of them can or have been proven correct.
With all our findings re: Obama and I guess real speculation and concern should Obama get the nod from the Democratic Party Little has been said or rvelaed re: the Clinton and that includes Hillary. Here is a case in point-
Steven Emerson: “hillary and hamas,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2000
Steven Emerson is a Washington based writer specializing in militant islamic organizations. When he writes about hilary’s affairs with the arabs, don’t forget that he’s writting about the first lady, and thus the presidential family. If these types of people exist on the top of the ladder, then you can understand what kind of scandals exist a few steps down.
In the spring of 1996, I had lunch with a senior adviser to the Clinton administration and to hillary Clinton. I asked him if there was any concern over the article I had published in The Wall Street Journal that revealed that both the president and first lady had hosted militant islamic groups, which had, at the White House, proclaimed their support for terrorism.
“This administration believes in a big tent,” the adviser responded. “Besides, we’ve gotten no flak, so why should we back off?”
Last week the first lady finally got some flak. As a result, mrs. clinton announced at an Oct. 25 news conference that she was returning $50,000 in campaign contributions raised by the American muslim alliance, an anti-Israeli group whose leaders have sanctioned terrorism, published anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad. The first lady also revealed she was returning a $1,000 contribution from abdulrahman alamoudi, an official of the American muslim council, who has openly championed hamas and defended other terrorists, including those behind the World Trade Center bombing.
The most telling moment of the first lady’s news conference–which has yet to be reported–came in response to a question as to why she has met repeatedly over the years with other groups that had openly supported hamas, hezbollah, and other foreign terrorist organizations. “What the administration has tried to do to try to promote a framework for peace,” she said, and “it certainly included lines of communication to many different groups and many different individuals.”
Well, let’s look at the results of that effort to produce a “framework for peace,” which, according to White House records, began in early 1996, when mrs. clinton first began hosting and inviting the council on American-islamic Relations (cair), the muslim public affairs council (mpac), the American muslim council, (amc) and the American muslim alliance (ama).
What have these groups done since mrs. clinton began reaching out to them? On Sept. 16, at a Washington rally sponsored by cair, amc, and mpac, the head of cair, nihad awad, declared: “They have been saying ‘next year to Jerusalem’, we say “next year to all of ‘palestine’!”
At another Washington rally, on Oct. 28, the amc’s mr. alamoudi led the thousands in attendance to chant their support for hamas and hezbollah. “Hear that, Bill Clinton, we are all supporters of hamas,” he declared. “I wish they argued that I am also a supporter of hezbollah.” (When the New York Daily News asked about these comments, mr. alamoudi denied making them, telling the reporter: “You better check your arabic.” When the reporter noted that he had given the speech in English, mr. alamoudi replied, “It was in English? Oh my God, I forgot!”)
In 1998, amc, cair, and ama hosted a rally at Brooklyn College where islamic militants exhorted the attendees to carry out “jihad” and described Jews as “pigs and monkeys.” In 1999 these same groups, together with mpac, sponsored a rally in Santa Clara, Calif., where one speaker called for the death of Jews.
Of course, mrs. clinton cannot be held responsible for the views of other people. The issue is whether she has unwittingly enabled these groups to gain legitimacy. Clearly she is aware of the danger of associating with extremists. When Rick Lazio said he would be willing to accept an endorsement from the New York branch of the Reform Party, whose presidential candidate is pat buchanan, mrs. clinton blasted Mr. Lazio: “I think his record–anti-Semitic comments, his record of intolerant and prejudicial remarks–are ones that I don’t want to be associated with.”
These are noble sentiments. If mrs. clinton is willing to denounce mr. buchanan, why has she associated with groups that have espoused anti-Semitism and supported terrorism?
And to that I say, well good for him, but I need to check on if it is true and if he really was a revolutionary communist.
I consider myself as a revolutionary communist and I am proud of being so, and to stand in the same tradition as Lenin, Trotsky and before them of Marx and Engels.
I believe rather firmly that the capitalist system is a bankrupt system, it is in its death agony and part of that death agony is the growth and use of Fascism. The Holocaust was the result of Fascism.
Ted is running this site and he should state his position after having introduced this article from AIM.
When Kincaid says Ayers was a communist what does he mean, what organization did he belong to, what was its programme etc?
So Ted, you have portrayed this man as a communist to your readers.
Now you have a responsibility to tell us where you are going with this.
I have dug a little on this.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169
Now on the latter sentence about not regretting if you consult the Wikipedia entry you will find Ayers claiming that these words by the NYT are a total distortion, ie lies.
(So the next question is who is the above source.)
And those of us following Yugoslavia have experience of that.
I really am no wiser to knowing who Ayers was. he could be anybody, he could even be an agent of the ruling American capitalist class. I dunno!
Tell us Ted who he was?
This is a nightmare you are leading Israpundit into Ted!
And the big problem for me Ted is that I simply do not have the time and I am asking myself now does it matter any more what goes onto the pages of Israpundit.
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Felix you have a lot to say and a lot of opinions but unfortunately many are based on either faulty assumptions, for example you say:
Yes fascism was the instrument but Christianity was the driving force and guide book.
He didn’t serve the Clintons. He joined the FBI in 1976 and had spied for the Russians for 20 years, which started long before Clinton became president. You don’t know what you are talking about.
Felix: you say-
Felix for Gods sake the guy was a confessed un remorseful fanatic terrorist. What th hell difference if he was a Stalinist , Trotskyist or an out right anarchist, he was and apparently still is a very bad character. He claimed he was a Communist and why should any of us check his pedigree? When you were a Catholic and some Catholic did something naughty did you care as much to check to see if he took communion everyday and went to confession regularly? You are looking for a reason to be contrary but don’t choose Ayers he isn’t worth the effort.
Sunstar
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Pastor Wright takes moral relativism to new heights. In his “just different speech” we get in a nutshell what an Obama presidency might look like.
His presidency won’t be good or bad – it will be just different.
The views of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Syria will not be seen as good or bad but rather they will be accepted as just different and thus deserving of consideration.
America and the values that the West represents will not be upheld as good or bad but just different; leaving competing philosophies to gain a foothold with Presidential blessings.
Wright’s “just different” speech might apply to linguistics and models for learning but they don’t apply to the foundations of our Western civilization.
Obama has taken Wright’s beliefs one step further by opening up his mind to the possibility that change through appeasement of those who have no place in their own philosophy for our values is acceptable and desirable.
What Obama supporters now see as a positive and fresh approach to change is, in fact, a surrender of our values to a replacement theology as crafted by Wright and Obama in their own separate ways but strengthened infinitely if Obama becomes the #1 guy in the White House.
Gary I agree with you that its all about values and yours as well as just about all of Pundits readership would most likely concur. But I say wait a moment I am Jewish living in a Jewish State and Shouldn’t I want to have Jewish values elevated and maintained as our supreme values? Jewsish Values are not exactly what you call Western Values, yes we have adopted many if not most but then that renders Israel a Jewish State, but only a Shell of Jewish and cannot long be maintained as such. Some values are non-negotiable. Jews can discuss the prescriptions of Talmud or Shulhan Aruh, the details of mixing milk with meat or turning on electricity on Sabbath, but some basic things must be accepted: for example, pork is prohibited and Jews should not perform exhausting work on Sabbath. Modern rabbis accept all kinds of transgressors. They should firmly reject Jewish evildoers. Few Jews will leave synagogues that blast their violations; most will mend their ways for better. Jews long for chastisement. Honest rabbis who decry violations are popular with their flock. People, Jews especially, need strong values, the firmament in the fluid world. Instead of disregarding the violations or criticizing them equivocally, reject them out of hand. Weak religiosity is hypocrisy; Jews only respect and follow strong beliefs. It’s similar about politics. Foreigners resent Israel that delays returning the “occupied land of Palestine.” Annexing the “Jewish land of Judea” would sound very different. Accept that some things are non-negotiable: Jews neither eat pork nor allow an Arab state in Judea. Believe in your values. Act on them. It’s not even about religion, but upholding the values that build your community, the bonds with the people who will join you in gas chamber or Sinai trench, the compatriots who will wield clubs running alongside you against your enemies. You’d better be sure you share the same values with them.
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Both Herbert Romerstein and Cliff Kincaid have on several occasions contributed articles to jewWatch.com, a notorious right-wing anti-semitic on line site.
The nexus of right wing extremism and anti black, anti-semitic, anti-immigrant sentiment go back to the days of Adolph Hitler. JewWatch.com is full of new world order, U.N liberals and particularly Jews entering into a conspiracy to take over the world. I am amazed that Ted has been taken in by this drivel. drivel.
Thanks HP I’ll look into it.
Jerome Corsi’s book “Obama Nation” documents O’s connection to communists, terrorists, anti-Israel operatives and various other miscreants. For me, there is sufficient evidence that O is a communist. Also, that he may be a Democrat but he is no democrat. The man is clearly an elitist who wishes to establish a fascist, socialist government in the United States.
You may not like Jerome Corsi but the fact is that he has scrupulously documented his allegations with quotations and footnotes. The book is a must read.
It’s not the right wing we need to fear; it’s the left.