Orange County Communists and Other Impossible People

All my plans fell through my hands, they fell through my hands on me. All my dreams, it suddenly seems, it suddenly seems, empty. - Dolores O’Riordan, the Cranberries, “Empty”

“We are communists.” Wait a minute… Communists? The classic 20th-century American bugbear? In the flesh in (of all places) Orange County, California!

I was certainly caught off guar…