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 ...
A ex-aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now working as a senior official in the New York State Communist Party.
Justine Medina, 33, spent a year employed by “The Squad” leader as a political organizer in 2020 and was paid more than $35,000 between February and November of that year, Federal Election Commission records show.
Almost immediately after the election, Medina began working as a full-blown Marxist. In July 2021, she was identified as “co-chair of the New York Young Communist League” by the Communist Party newspaper People’s World. The same publication today identifies her as a member of the “Executive Committee of the New York State Communist Party.”
Social media records show Medina’s Marxist proclivities were in full bloom before and during her employment with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.
“Well, I am a Communist, but work for AOC,” she said proudly in a tweet from October 2020.
More honest than his/her boss.
no surprise there
that is where she recruits staff
Ocasio-Cortez has had communists, actual communists, working for her? Holy moley.........
Ping
Birds of a feather. AOC is certainly a RED.
McCarthy, we need you now; no necessity to ‘allege’.
We see it before our eyes in black and red.
Over 60 years and McCarthy is still right about the democrats.
That aide to AOC has won a free one way helicopter ride
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Back in the day Communists would have been executed. Now it’s a badge of honor.
They are mostly commies at the DNC anyway.
RE: How did we get to the point that you could openly declare yourself a communist in America?
Let me ask you this — Has the Communist Party ever been banned in the USA?
Communism is cool kids! Smoke dope .. read propaganda .. groom children.. ignore laws.. work a few days a months (optional).
“its”
And be first against the wall when the Commies take over.
I think they are mostly opportunist. Do you believe Bernie Sanders actually wants to share HIS wealth?
Communists, like all socialists, share OTHER people’s wealth while those wanting to lead seek to not have to hold a real job even as they always eat first and best.
Ol donkey teeth....is a Commie too. She just cannot say it yet..........
Belonging to the CP has never been a crime in the US. Until Dec 11, 1941 neither was belonging to the American Bund and after the war belonging to Rockwell’s American Nazi Party was not a crime.
your point...?
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