[Luis Gonzalez]

I don't foresee an openly communist candidate ever being voted into any level office in the US. My point is that being free means allowing even those ideologies that we do not believe in to exist.

[exodus]

To: Japedo
I don't foresee an openly communist candidate ever being voted into any level office in the US. My point is that being free means allowing even those ideologies that we do not believe in to exist.
# 246 by Luis Gonzalez
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What about Bernie Sanders, then?
Bernie isn't the only socialist in Congress,
but he's openly socialist,
which to me is a synonym for communist.

[Twodees]

Fine, allow communism to exist. Just don't defend your party's politicians when they embrace it. We're all free to choose communism if we're stupid enough. The people elected to office aren't free to do so because they took an oath to the US Constitution and the Constitution doesn't contain any communism.