The last time we fought communism with bullets was in Nam(1), next time it'll be in our own streets.
I discount our little adventure in Grenada against 1,000 Cuban commies.
I agree with your first sentence wholeheartedly. The thing is I think that much of the Russian Communist Party didn’t really go away they just couldn’t go about business as usual anymore...
Journalists are still threatened and/or killed for going against the Kremlin.
Instead of party officials holding the majority of wealth it is FORMER party officials who are the corrupt businessmen.
Instead of the KGB - Moscow officials use the mafia for a lot of their dirty work.
I could go on, but I think you see what I mean...
I fully admit that when the wall fell in Berlin, and then the USSR finally collapsed I thought we were “free” of the Communist threat as well (I was a teenager still - graduated HS in 1990). Over the last 10 or so years I’ve seen and learned a lot and I’m no longer blind. However, I know MANY - especially in my age group who still believe as I used to. Those in the generation(s) behind me - they aren’t even TAUGHT of the horrors of Communism which is why they were so gullible when it came to Obama, and why they can’t see the dangers of “So-called” Socialism either!
Another interesting thing I discovered during the election last year — professors in our colleges are using *new* definitions for what constitutes Socialism and Communism.
No longer is socialism defined (by leftist professors) as the means of production owned by the PEOPLE/workers vs. Communism where the means of production is held by the state. I honestly can’t even EXPLAIN their convoluted definitions now — I only know that using these definitions is what has caused a HUGE generational gap between us “old-school” folks who remember REAL Communism, and the younger generations who believe what we are seeing today in the us (Nationalization of industries and class-warfare) is “socialism” and that it’s good...