Part of the problem is that many of the younger generation don’t really know what communism is. A generation ago, “communist” was about the worst thing you could call someone. It had real impact because people were aware what an evil communism is.
Now, for many young people, learning that someone is a communist has no more effect than learning he is a Rotarian. Our public school system has so dumbed down an entire generation, communism no longer generates the revulsion it deserves.
"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
THIS.
And it's completely intentional on the part of the communist subversives who work tirelessly to overthrow our republican form of government.
By hook or by crook.