Posted on 05/15/2023 7:01:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrats, at least in the recent past, could be counted on express umbrage when their political opponents called them 'communists.'
After all, communism has led to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people; a vile '-ology' comparable to Naziism in its totalitarian ideal.
Get a load of how sensitive they used to be, as recently as 2022, in this New York magazine piece by Ed Kilgore:
The day after the 2020 vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, then-President Donald Trump did something that is hard to do: He actually shocked me with intemperate language, in this case referring to Harris as a “monster” and a “communist.” The “monster” business didn’t surprise me, actually, given Trump’s long history of personal insults to women. But “communist?” Seriously? I hadn’t heard a Republican call a Democrat a commie since the high tide of McCarthyism — and even back then, the rare slur was associated with specific (if lunatic) allegations of subservience to an international Marxist-Leninist conspiracy operating out of Moscow. Sure, for a generation, Republicans have been imprecisely calling Democrats “socialists,” though no more than a handful of Donkey Party members answer to that appellation, which in itself is as imprecise as “conservative” or “liberal.” But “communist” is actually pretty precise — and wildly inappropriate for anyone in either major U.S. party.
Really?
These days Democrats are different, and the appellation 'communist' for some is all perfectly real.
According to the New York Post:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes. Since 1954. From Wiki (I know): The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in or support for the party or "Communist-action" organizations and defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities, planning, actions, objectives, or purposes of such organizations.[1]
RE: an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in or support for the party or “Communist-action”
If it was criminalized, how come they have candidates for the PRESIDENT of the United States since 1924 and even AFTER Eisenhower signed a law that banned them?
See here:
What a surprise!! Was AOC to conservative for the aide? 🤓
It was never really enforced, and a Federal court found it unconstitutional in 1973.
Now the CP-USA is just another bunch of Democrat slacker hangers on, mainly distinguished by their sexual diversity. I mean even compared to other leftists. Really.
Lenin would have had them executed just for that.
Nothing new. Bernie Sanders ran as an elector for Clifton DeBerry, Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyite Communist) in 1980.
I always suspected that AOC has aids
Well ok perhaps I’m in error.
NO person is as likely much more dangerous to our republic as AOC. Say she might be an equal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnjYYwbCMSs
The Devil’s chickens are coming home to roost.
At least he’s honest.
Commies don’t allow for loafing.
Answer:
Since the Obama administration, Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones.
Commies lie, people die.
You’re talking about REAL communists. they will throw these prenders in a giant wood chipper.
She has a nose ring...
Threatens to kill those that disagree with communism.
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