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Confessions of an Activist

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Rafe Pilgrim
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Recent events have prompted me to come clean regarding my honest political persuasion.

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Within the past year I have been variously described as follows --

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     From a Democratic Party functionary, I am "a mole for the Republicans."

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     From a Republican spokesman, I am "a radical leftist, possibly a Communist."

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     From an avowed Communist, I am "a red-baiting reactionary."

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Goodness, or badness if you will, that's one hell of a spectrum! And, would you believe it -- being by nature rather confident in my political positions -- until quite recently I had never realized there was an identity problem.

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What are the symptoms that have elicited such diagnoses from these observers?

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