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View Poll Results: Which US State has Moved the Closest to Communism as of 2019?
Connecticut 2 2.50%
New York 9 11.25%
New Jersey 1 1.25%
Illinios 2 2.50%
Massachusetts 1 1.25%
California 51 63.75%
Maryland 0 0%
Virginia 0 0%
Washington State 3 3.75%
Other, please specify 11 13.75%
Voters: 80. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-23-2019, 04:39 PM
 
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The 50 US states have been called the 50 laboratories of democracy. Some states will make sound judgments while other will screw up, all based on ideologies. Of the most left-leaning states which one has moved the furthest towards a communistic, anti-business socio-political environment in 2019?
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Old 06-23-2019, 04:50 PM
 
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The 50 US states have been called the 50 laboratories of democracy. Some states will make sound judgments while other will screw up, all based on ideologies. Of the most left-leaning states which one has moved the furthest towards a communistic, anti-business socio-political environment in 2019?
You forgot the choice of "none." There are no communistic type states in America.
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Old 06-23-2019, 04:51 PM
 
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You forgot the choice of "none." There are no communistic type states in America.
The thread is about states moving in the direction of communism, not about any states being communistic yet.
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Old 06-23-2019, 04:53 PM
 
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Where is Alabama? Heck, they are legally making private police forces. What could be more Communist than that?

(My answer is simply being dismissive of a stupid thread)
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Old 06-23-2019, 04:56 PM
 
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The thread is about states moving in the direction of communism, not about any states being communistic yet.
I don't think any states are moving toward communism. Do you know what communism is?
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Old 06-23-2019, 04:57 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA
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The 50 US states have been called the 50 laboratories of democracy. Some states will make sound judgments while other will screw up, all based on ideologies. Of the most left-leaning states which one has moved the furthest towards a communistic, anti-business socio-political environment in 2019?
None. You probably need to get out of your far right media bubble and get a better idea of our current political system both on the state and federal level.
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Old 06-23-2019, 05:02 PM
 
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The thread is about states moving in the direction of communism, not about any states being communistic yet.
That list looks like the highest GDP states - highest education, etc.

Is the new definition of "communism" called "success in capitalism"????

Of more interest are the states going toward authoritarianism and theocracy - both of which are totally un-American.

I don't see any of those states listed....
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Old 06-23-2019, 05:02 PM
 
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I don't think any states are moving toward communism. Do you know what communism is?
Yes I do. Communism is state control of the means of production or economy, and some states are slowly moving in that direction with the creation of large government programs displacing private enterprise and/or increasingly anti-business regulations, policies and rhetoric. None of them will ever be fully communist (DUH) because they are under the US Constitution but I was never writing about that.

Communist government is the ultimate big government and some states have bigger government than others. Which one(s) are moving in that direction is the question proposed.
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Old 06-23-2019, 05:07 PM
 
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None.

Welfare is not communism.
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Old 06-23-2019, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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Yes I do. Communism is state control of the means of production or economy, and some states are slowly moving in that direction with the creation of large government programs displacing private enterprise and/or increasingly anti-business regulations, policies and rhetoric. None of them will ever be fully communist (DUH) because they are under the US Constitution but I was never writing about that.

Communist government is the ultimate big government and some states have bigger government than others. Which one(s) are moving in that direction is the question proposed.
Big government and communism are not the same.

Has any state nationalized industries or turned businesses into cooperatives and closed the trading market?

No? Then there are no communist policies.
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