The cognitive dissonance is stunning.

Vonnegut was deeply influenced by early Socialist labor leaders, especially Indiana natives Powers Hapgood and Eugene V. Debs, and he frequently quoted them in his work. He named characters after both Debs (Eugene Debs Hartke in Hocus Pocus and Eugene Debs Metzger in Deadeye Dick) and Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (Leon Trotsky Trout in Galpagos). He was a lifetime member of the American Civil Liberties Union and was featured in a print advertisement for them…

I trust that some of you will understand what I’m referring to. Unless of course it is yet another stunning claim to being so full of irony.