I expect this is a function of naifs attracted by prospect of free stuff, coupled with ambitious men hoping to ride its banner to personal power. In that respect, much like other ideologies or faiths that garner a significant following.
“Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
-Ronald Reagan
Communism is never about the destination.
Communism is always about the journey
In the USA, Communism lives in government and education - institutions fed by massive government spending and debt.
“From each according to their abilities, too each according to their needs” is another lie; It is not honest in how this is applied, in that a tyrant will tell you what your “abilities” are, and what your “needs” are.
There is simply no replacement for FREEDOM.
The McCarthy hearings were branded by many as a witch hunt but it by God shut communism down in this country for a long time.
“”So we must stop pretending that communism is a noble idea that was simply mismanaged. It is not a noble idea. It is a dangerous illusion — one that always ends in control, corruption, and collapse.””
It’s a dangerouns delusion because it relies on human nature being “noble”. And as we have all seen examples of this past week... the human nature of the liberal and radical left is anything “but” noble. It is depraved, corrupt and based in lies and the destruction of ideas other than their own... as well as the elimination of anyone with differing ideas.
My hope is that the death of Charlie Kirk will, among other things, make people more aware of these “human nature flaws” and open their eyes to what we here in America face... as these same flawed cretins seek to either control us or destroy us. I hope and pray that Americans will now realize that we face an enemy far more dangerous that any enemy without. We face an enemy within... pretending to be ‘for’ us... while working against us. The ultimate Trojan Horse enemy. I call them radleft Democrats.
The Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. In this expression, the Creator reaches into our world from eternity to endow individual humans with inestimable value. We saw at the Constitutional Convention an understanding that true compassion, true leadership arises from understanding how very few individuals cannot create, encourage, explore, restore, repair, analyze, develop, build, and nurture as they exercise their intangible natural liberties. For all time Americans would be defined as sovereign individuals finding their identity in exercising pre-existing intangible liberties within bounds of voluntary self-restraint and accompanied by the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. This vision was translated into our Constitution, which relies upon fallible individuals to both lead and reside within governments and private institutions committed to promoting human spirituality and rejecting the fiction of infallible human elites determining actions.