What Ayers may or may not have said 40 years ago isn't the issue

The politics supposedly espoused in that alleged conversation have nothing to do with the current campaign or with any element of the Democratic Party

The politics of Pinochet are very relevant. They are part of the very make-up of the republican party.

Pinochet is considered to be a hero by many on the right. He was installed by Nixon, with the assistance of Kissinger. Milton Friedman was a close economic adviser to the regime. Margaret Thatcher thought he was a wonderful gentleman to have tea with. Jesse Helms admired him (and Roberto D'Aubuisson "Blowtorch Bob" of El Salvador as well).

The beginnings of the conservative movement were born in the pages of National Review, a magazine that saw Francisco Franco as a patriotic, christian gentleman maligned by leftists. National Review was also part of Pinochet's choir, and was an unrelenting apologist for the thug Joseph McCarthy.

The right wing in this country basically espouses anti-American values. They believe in a dictatorship supporting the wealthy. They admire a dictator who disposed of his opponents by throwing them out of a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean. They believe in mass murder.

That is what our adventure in bottom feeding shows. It shows the right wing dream of America as a banana republic, run by a military dictator like "Blowtorch Bob"