[frnewsjunkie]

This is:

Taking those the gov disagrees with prisoner and leaving them there.

Ask anyone who came out of it... they recognize it.

Do NOT recognize.. worries me!

making anything law.. overruling election.
taking over the schools
spending on their whims and raising our taxes
taking over land that is not theirs
causing families to have no jobs if they do not obey the made up mandate.. and the many who obeyed.

the threats I am hearing..
and if you do not see and hear and feel... all this. you must be among the young and accept it all.

[DannyTN]

You have a real mishmash of issues there.

For each issue, ask yourself, does this result in the government owning the means of production. If it doesn’t then it is not either the economic definition or the political definition of communism. It might be totalitarianism, or it might just be something fully allowed by democracy and you just don’t like. Definitions at the end.

• The major threat to Democracy in what you listed is “overturning elections” whatever you meant by that. Fair, free, honest, transparent elections are critical to democracy. If sufficient controls to prevent cheating are not in place, if courts won’t adequately review elections, and if legislatures won’t order election audits, then our democracy is at serious risk of becoming totalitarian, ruled by a single party or perhaps a uniparty (single party masquerading as two) that never relinquishes control to true representatives of the people. I’m optimistic that some audits are being done and more will be in the future. My ruling "could lead to TOTALITARIANISM"
• A less major threat to democracy is “making anything law”. I assume you mean Governors, mayors and health departments declaring mandates in the name of public health. Well, in most cases, our duly elected legislatures delegated that authority. And where they didn’t sufficiently delegate authority, most court challenges to these mandates have been upheld and the mandates struck down accordingly. So my ruling “NOT COMMUNISM”. You may not like that elected legislatures gave that authority or that the governors used it. But the checks and balances in the rule of law seem to be holding. And I’m not particularly concerned by these, as I think they will stop when the virus goes away, which I think it will.
• Taking those the gov disagrees with prisoner and leaving them there. (Political prosecutions are indeed a hallmark of Totalitarian systems, not just communist ones. And we’ve had a surprising number of political prosecutions recently.) My ruling “TOTALITARIAN NOT COMMUNISM”
• taking over the schools (A hallmark of Totalitarian systems, not just communist ones. But this is an ongoing battle for influence, that must be continually waged. I don’t think we are there yet.) My ruling “TOTALITARIAN NOT COMMUNISM”
• spending on their whims and raising our taxes (Sorry, this is a hall mark of all forms of government and as long as our elections work, it’s subject to review and correction.) My ruling “Government in General not Communism”
• taking over land that is not theirs (If you mean eminent domain, it dates back to before the country’s founding, and is acceptable in Democracy as long as due process is followed and fair compensation is issued.) I’m more concerned about police seizures of cash without probably cause than I am about eminent domain. My ruling NOT COMMUNISM.
• causing families to have no jobs if they do not obey the made up mandate (Again these mandates were authorized by legislation passed by duly elected legislatures, and they remain subject to the review and repeal by the legislatures. My ruling “NOT COMMUNISM”)
• .. and the many who obeyed. (Sorry, law abiding citizens are not communism even if they obey a mandate that you don’t like. My ruling “NOT COMMUNISM”) the threats I am hearing.. (I’m not going to guess what threats you’ve heard. My ruling Possible Bullying but not Communism).

Definitions:

1. A Communist Economic system government owns the means of production.
2. A Communist Political system is a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
3. Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.