“communists would die with the word “Stalin” on their lips”
There’s the problem - not enough communists died. Like it or not, we need to set up a 2nd Nuremberg tribunal that judges and punishes communists. The 1st Nuremberg tribunal established a loathing toward Nazism. The 2nd tribunal can accomplish a hatred toward communism.
2 things. Communists in America, specifically. And. I don’t know that they needed to die (that’s their schtick, not so much, ours)- but they did need to be exiled & never allowed to return under any circumstances. If they had family that remained here & they maintained contact, those who remained needed to be removed, too. Imprisoning them would have been like putting a bandaid on cancer.
Free speech is fine & noble, but when you *know* that a group is engineering an overthrow of our government, it is is suicidal to allow them to stay here. It is not as if they had no place else to go (USSR, China).
NEVER believe that a loathing against national socialism has been established. It is re-surging. (Not the same as nationalism, btw) The only difference between socialists, communists, & “national socialists” is nuance; minor details. Left is left. All are deadly & totalitarian. The worse things get, the more vulnerable naive, ignorant, or desperate people become..
My humble opinion is that the resurgence of socialism is the result of the indoctrination that has replaced education. How many generations have absolutely no inkling about what society was like 40, 45 years ago? Our very history- facts, are being scrubbed before our eyes. Reality concerning that time doesn’t even exist for someone born in the 70s & beyond. (One good example is the homosexual narrative.)
Our problem is social engineering. Whether or not it is too late to counter that, I don’t know. But we should certainly be telling the truth at every opportunity- especially to young people. Before we die off & there’s no one left to tell it.