Oh, how many times have I heard that -
“This isn’t communism/socialism - that’s what they had in the Soviet Union. They don’t intend to do that here!”
If you scratch deeper in that argument, you’ll find sighs that “the Soviets meant us no harm”, “We had missiles pointed at them too”.
Communist sympathizers are nothing new to this country. They’ve been here for the better part of a century. They will deny their loyalties to Communism and Mother Russia, though.
If they think that Communism is such a good system and that Castro and Chavez are maligned, why not move? And if these leaders aren’t instituting REAL Communism, why not work within these nations to bring about Reform/Orthadox Communism? Why change the American system? Because it poses an obstacle to global socialist takeover.