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Old 12-16-2020, 01:03 AM
 
Location: Canada
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Meh.

Certain types of neurotic paranoid Americans have been hysterically screaming "communism!" or other similar 'red scare' terms since 1917. Count them - that's 103 years.

They think it's the patriotic thing to do even when the hysterical paranoids don't have a clue what it means.

Screaming "communism!" has become an American stereotype.

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Old 12-16-2020, 06:18 AM
 
Location: Long Island, N.Y.
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Meh.

Certain types of neurotic paranoid Americans have been hysterically screaming "communism!" or other similar 'red scare' terms since 1917. Count them - that's 103 years.

They think it's the patriotic thing to do even when the hysterical paranoids don't have a clue what it means.

Screaming "communism!" has become an American stereotype.

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Educate yourself!

https://www.unz.com/article/the-real...ed-subversion/
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Old 12-16-2020, 06:43 AM
 
Location: South of Heaven
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Maybe if the left agrees to stop using the word fascism the right will agree to stop using the word communism.
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Old 12-16-2020, 08:16 AM
 
Location: New York City
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Nearly all other Western World countries have Actual Communist parties.

They get 3-6% of the Vote.
And ALL other Western countries have politics to the LEFT of the Democratic Party.

And Republicans dont claim ANY of those countries to be Communists...
They will admit to Capitalistic with a strong social safety net.

But Republicans scream Democrats are Communists? Really...
It certainly gets some fringe Republicans riled up every time they scream it.


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In this country it should be 0%.

And by the way, the Bolsheviks only had 8,400 members in 1905 and still only 100,000 in 1910 out of a Russian population of about 125M (0.8%). Yet that tiny group of subversives managed to convince the peasants to murder all the middle class farmers and set in motion the overthrow of the czars in 1917 and what free society they would ever have for the next seven decades

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Old 12-16-2020, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Canada
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I'm decades ahead of you on that.

You should learn how to SPEAK for yourself instead of throwing other people's dime-a-dozen online articles around as supposed proof of your own education.

Our respective educations still will not change the fact that paranoid neurotics constantly screaming "communism!" has become an American stereotype that other people elsewhere just laugh at.

So after the shepherd boy screams wolf too many times for too many years, who will pay attention to the boy's screams when the real wolf finally does come trotting into the village?

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Old 12-16-2020, 09:58 AM
 
Location: 23.7 million to 162 million miles North of Venus
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You are sleeping and don't even see all the red flags that point to communism... many red flags. Obama was not a community organizer. He was a communist organizer. Did you know that Van Jones who was in the Obama administration was let go when they found out he was an avowed communist and started the communist group called "storm".



Did you know that Anita Dunn said that her idol was Mao the Chinese communist. Anita was let go .


Obama's mother was a communist.



Obama's father was a communist.



Reverend Wright's church was a marxist organization. It was a church that preached Black Liberation Theology that was founded by James H. Cone who was a marxist. Obama went to the so called church for 20 years. They hate America.They hate white people.



Van Jones an avowed communist is now working for CNN.



Brennan voted for a communist. That says something to me. Who would vote for a communist. Half of America when they voted for Obama.



Obama's transformation to communism moves on today with censorship, an almost totalitarian media..





The GOAL OF THE TRANSFORMATION. If the democrats take over the senate, they will pack the court to take over the Constitution and have power with the three branches of government and create their own laws against Americans. All Americans.





They will shut the rest of the conservative voices and make laws against freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the freedom to own a gun. It is coming soon if they get the senate. The big transformation will be in full force. The media, the big tech. the communists, the globalists , the whole power structure will take us down the path to communism. It will line up as I have said. Watch for it if the cheat and take the two seats and they go democrat and control the senate. The end of America.
Van Jones was brought into Obama's administration by Valerie Jarrett.
Frank Marshal Davis, a known communist, is the man that Obama said was like a "father figure" to him. Davis also has strong ties to VJ's family.

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It’s been well documented that Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago lawyer and longtime Obama confidant, is a liberal extremist who wields tremendous power in the White House. Faithful to her roots, she still has connections to many Communist and extremist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshal Davis, a big Obama mentor and Communist Party member with an extensive FBI file.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrup...rretts-family/

VJ was basically Obama's right-hand woman, sorry Michelle, even in off hours at the WH. She apparently ate dinner with the Obama's almost every night they were in the WH. Obama installed her into his home soon after he'd left the WH, and she's still there almost four years later. (a second wife?)


Seems Obama has always surrounded himself with known communists. As the old saying goes "like attracts like".
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Old 12-16-2020, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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I agree. At least in the 50s it was more understandable, since there was an actual communist threat. The Cold War is over; we won. Righties today are concerned that if socialists get their way, Americans might get Universal Health Care. The horrors! Worse than being in a gulag! Or one could even imagine government paying for two years of community college tuition. Oh no! Western democracy is doomed!
While I understand your point...I will also say, people who don't understand that small incremental changes result in huge changes far into the future....also don't understand what a huge affect compound interest can have on your financial future either.

Everything builds on something, and what sounds like a small natural incremental change/advance now...would quite possibly have sounded objectionable 5 or 6 steps ago. We certainly should change, evolve, advance...but we just need to look far into the future to see what steps we're laying now...and where we'll likely end up taking the path we're taking...whatever it is. We just don't ever want to get to some point, look back and have to say.....how the hell did we get to this terrible place with such good intentions??
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Old 12-16-2020, 10:19 AM
 
Location: 23.7 million to 162 million miles North of Venus
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look up the word transformation. It doesn't happen all at once .It is a slow chipping away of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.
I don't know why some people think things always must happen quickly and if it doesn't happen immediately then it won't ever happen. There are people who will work towards a goal knowing that they'll won't live long enough to see the fruits of their labor.


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Did the Media release the news of Biden's son who took money from many countries ? No, It was censored. Communist tactic.


Did we have a fair balance of reporting from both sides , Democrat and Republican or was it completely biased and negative to one politcal group? Communist tactic. Totalitarian media.


Was Biden ever censored? Complete support for a one sided freedom of speech. Communist tactic

Are conservative voices silenced by the educational institutions. Freedom of speech not allowed. Communist tactic.
Did Obama use the IRS to hamper the conservative groups working on an election. Yes.


Did Obama know about the witch hunt along with Biden at its infancy . Yes. And they knew it was false allegations against Trump from the beginning. It is all documented though e-mails and records . Communist tactics Spying on a sitting president.


Was Biden ever bullied by the media and asked hard questions? No. Unlike a sitting president that worked for the people, not the globalists, not the communists.


Did China Joe take money from China.. Of course he did. His sons laptop is the evidence to what they did over the course of many years getting kickbacks.


Has the democrat party ever say that China was the entity that purposely spread this virus to us and around the world. NO! they protect their communist friends.
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Old 01-07-2021, 08:31 PM
 
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I agree. At least in the 50s it was more understandable, since there was an actual communist threat. The Cold War is over; we won. Righties today are concerned that if socialists get their way, Americans might get Universal Health Care. The horrors! Worse than being in a gulag! Or one could even imagine government paying for two years of community college tuition. Oh no! Western democracy is doomed!
Tennessee, a very Republican-controlled state, gives all residents 2 free years of community college or trade-school.
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Old 01-07-2021, 08:36 PM
 
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Its a dodge. Conservatives try to paint liberals as marxists. It is old as Joe McCarthy. Rather that discuss issues the right tends to paint the left as devils. Sad really
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