Whenever someone questions whether Democrats have communistic leanings, I just ask them why the actual Communist Party never fields any candidates under their banner. They don’t need to. Democrats.
Communist Party member folk singer Pete Seeger first refused to answer at HUAC hearings about being a Communist, saying “That’s not the question you should be asking. You should ask....” Then the Fifth.
He much later said “I am out of the Communist Party. I don’t need it any more. Look at what the Democratic Party does. It does everything we in the Communist Party used to fight for. Black rights. Overthrow of capitalism. Power for the working people in labor unions. Affordable housing and public transportation. Cutting down the power of the defense complex. We get it all from the Democratic Party now.”