Remember, Democrats are NOT Communists!!

[Bud_Spencer]

Don't ever, ever think that, even when the likes of "Danang" Dick Blumenthal get all weak in the knees for them and can't stop gushing like a 12 year-old gurl at an N'Synch concert...he didn't get the memo:

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Helps Conn. Communist Party Celebrate 102nd Anniversary of CPUSA

"Senator Richard Blumenthal(D-Conn.) said he was “excited and proud” to help the Connecticut Communist Party celebrate the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA over the weekend."

https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/13/...t-party-celebrate-102nd-anniversary-of-cpusa/

 

[adrina]

Oh. Look. It must be a day that ends in Y - Bud is posting grievance porn.

 

[Rightguide]

He ought to be kicked out of the Senate for collaborating with the enemy.

 

[NorthernVAM]

Don't ever, ever think that, even when the likes of "Danang" Dick Blumenthal get all weak in the knees for them and can't stop gushing like a 12 year-old gurl at an N'Synch concert...he didn't get the memo:

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Helps Conn. Communist Party Celebrate 102nd Anniversary of CPUSA

"Senator Richard Blumenthal(D-Conn.) said he was “excited and proud” to help the Connecticut Communist Party celebrate the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA over the weekend."

https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/13/...t-party-celebrate-102nd-anniversary-of-cpusa/

I honestly don't think what you say is fully accurate, but it really depends upon what your definition of being a communist is. I believe that many of the "principles" or "values" expressed by the leadership of the "progressive" wing of the Democratic party would have been considered closer to "socialist" or "communist" ideals, rather than traditional American ideals that are expressed in the Constitution.

Certainly in the area of "free speech", my impression is that the left are perfectly willing to attempt to silence dissent through "cancel culture" with is just another form of McCarthyism, only on the political left, rather than the political right. I also think the in the area of "social engineering", the left is much more willing to want to tell parents what values their children should be taught in public school, including values that may violate the "freedom of religion" protections in the constitution.

In terms of "property rights" and protecting private property, my observation is that the mayor of Seattle in particular had no respect for the property rights of the people whose property was in the "police free" zone last year. Nor did she value the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by allowing an unlawful rebellion to continue as long as she did. That was clear dereliction of duty if you ask me, and disrespect for the people who paid taxes to the city for property protection. Lack of respect for enforcing the laws that are on the books is something that I think leads to chaos and ultimately a lack of safety for all citizens.

In terms of places like New York City, I grew up there during the budget crisis of the 1970s, and remember how dangerous it was during the 1980s. Believe it or not both Giuliani and Bloomberg did an excellent job of creating a safe city for the majority of its citizens. As far as I can tell all deBlasio has done is let the city deteriorate again under the guise of being a "Progressive". If he's a model representative of a progressive Democrat, I would say that whatever value system he's operating with doesn't work in terms of creating a safe, orderly society.

You can't help poor disadvantaged people improve their lives if there is crime and chaos going on. You need a stable tax base in order to have resources to help the disadvantaged, and provide a safe environment for them where they aren't subject to crime.

 

[pecksniff]

He ought to be kicked out of the Senate for collaborating with the enemy.

The CPUSA is an American political party. It is not the enemy.

Let us never, ever go back to the disgraceful period of the Smith Act Trials.

 

[pecksniff]

I honestly don't think what you say is fully accurate, but it really depends upon what your definition of being a communist is.

Even the CPUSA sometimes has a hard time deciding that.

COMMUNIST PARTY USA - The CPUSA -- once the slavish propaganda tool and spy network for the Soviet Central Committee -- experienced a forced transformation in recent years. Highly classified Soviet Politburo records, made public after the fall of Soviet communism in the 1990s, revealed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) illegally funneled millions of dollars to the CPUSA to finance its activities from the 1920s to the 1980s. The flow of Soviet dollars to the CPUSA came to an abrupt halt when the Soviet communists were ousted from power in 1991 -- ultimately causing a total overhaul of CPUSA activities. Founded in 1924, the CPUSA reached its peak vote total in 1932 with nominee William Z. Foster (102,000 votes - 4th place). The last national CPUSA ticket -- headed by Stalinist Gus Hall and 60s radical activist Angela Davis -- was fielded in 1984 (36,000 votes - 8th place). While the party has not directly run any candidates since the late 1980s, the CPUSA sometimes backs some candidates in various local elections (often in Northeastern industrial communities) and engages in grassroots political and labor union organizing. In 2021, the party announced it would start fielding candidates again going forward. As for issues, the CPUSA calls for free universal health care, elimination of the federal income tax on people earning under $60,000 a year, free college education, drastic cuts in military spending, "massive" public works programs, the outlawing of "scabs and union busting," abolition of corporate monopolies, public ownership of energy and basic industries, huge tax hikes for corporations and the wealthy, and various other programs designed to "beat the power of the capitalist class ... [and promote] anti-imperialist freedom struggles around the world." The CPUSA's underlying Marxist ideology remains strong. However, it has evolved now -- after the death of Hall in 2000 -- into a Gorbachev-style "democratic reform communist" movement headed by activist Sam Webb. Under Webb's leadership (2000-14), the CPUSA touted a platform of true democratic socialism and trade unionism, and frequently encourages votes for the Democratic presidential nominees as a pragmatic electoral tactic to defeat conservatives. (Webb renounced the party in 2016 and became a Clinton Democrat -- and even denounced Bernie Sanders as needlessly divisive.) Today, under the leadership of Joe Sims, the party has shifted back to its traditional far-left Marxist stances. Official CPUSA websites include the People's World party newspaper and Political Affairs monthly party magazine.

 

[Rightguide]

Even the CPUSA sometimes has a hard time deciding that.

The CPUSA would like to reinvent itself in order to fool people. That's why a lot of them now appear in the Democrat Party. Communism is Marxism. People who hold Marxist views are therefore communists.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The CPUSA is an American political party. It is not the enemy.

Let us never, ever go back to the disgraceful period of the Smith Act Trials.

Yet a guy with a swastika flag parks his van half a mile from where Trump is speaking, and it's ironclad proof of Trump's adherence to Nazi ideology.

 

[pecksniff]

The CPUSA would like to reinvent itself in order to fool people. That's why a lot of them now appear in the Democrat Party.

There is no Democrat Party.

Communism is Marxism. People who hold Marxist views are therefore communists.

Actually, no. "Marxism" is amenable to a very wide range of interpretations, including some forms of anarchism. "Communism" is generally understood to refer only to the Leninist-Stalinist model.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

https://i.imgur.com/JTdcmMw.jpg?1

 

[NorthernVAM]

The CPUSA is an American political party. It is not the enemy.

Let us never, ever go back to the disgraceful period of the Smith Act Trials.

Well -- technically you can establish a political party that behaves in a way to undermine our existing due process and constitutional protections. It's kind of tricky on who you can define as an "enemy" -- would you consider the US Nazi party just a political party as well? What about a political party that advocated some form of genocide -- like for undesirables, however you want to define "undesirable"?

Overall, I tend to agree with you -- that our laws allow for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and unless you are advocating for some sort of violence against our institutions or citizens, then you have the freedom of expression.

 

[Rightguide]

There is no Democrat Party.

There's nothing democratic about the Democrat Party.

Actually, no. "Marxism" is amenable to a very wide range of interpretations, including some forms of anarchism. "Communism" is generally understood to refer only to the Leninist-Stalinist model.

Marx was a communist. His manifesto which gave birth to Communism was titled the "Communist" Manifesto. His political ideas murdered millions. His economic ideas starved to death millions upon millions more. He was a worthless, grubby, drunk:


Karl Marx Was a Pretty Bad Person
Marx become an advocate of mass murder and dictatorship in place of liberal democracy and social peace.
By Richard Ebeling

When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even until today – there have been few thinkers whose ideas have been as influential on various aspects of modern world history. Indeed, as some have said, no other faith or belief-system has had such a worldwide impact as Marxism, since the birth of Christianity and the rise of Islam.

Marx’s critique of capitalism and capitalist society has shaped much of the social thinking in Western countries that led to the welfare state and extensive government intervention into economic affairs. And it served as the ideological banner that inspired the socialist and communist revolutions of the twentieth century – beginning in Russia in 1917 and still retaining political power today in such countries as Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and China.

In the name of the Marxian vision of a “new society” and a “new man,” socialist and communist revolutions led to the mass murders, enslavement, torture, and starvation of tens of millions of people around the world. Historians have estimated that in the attempt to make that “new” and “better” socialist world, communist regimes have killed as many as, maybe, 200 million people in the twentieth century.

The pitiful rest is here:
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/karl-marx-was-pretty-bad-person/

 

[WillJ8787]

Oh. Look. It must be a day that ends in Y - Bud is posting grievance porn.

They are not that bright here....the so called communist Dud identifies drive around in BMW's, has choiffers, lives in multi-million dollar homes....man, if that is Communism, maybe they should give it a try.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

There's nothing democratic about the Democrat Party.

Lame histrionics.

 

[NorthernVAM]

They are not that bright here....the so called communist Dud identifies drive around in BMW's, has choiffers, lives in multi-million dollar homes....man, if that is Communism, maybe they should give it a try.

Well,

It depends upon where you are in the party hierarchy now doesn't it? I'm sure that Stalin lived a much different life than the peasants who starved during his years of communist rule. In the end, the Communists turned out to be no better than the royal family that they replaced with respect to human rights.

I honestly believe some of the more vocal advocates for more a more intrusive government should actually go live in a country that has a more intrusive government and see how long they last vocalizing their opinions. It's one thing to be free to try and tell other people how they should live -- it's quite another when someone else is telling you how you should live, and you don't have the freedom to tell them to mind their own business ....

 

[phrodeau]

Did all those people really die of Communism, or could it have been from unrelated causes?

 

[adrina]

Did all those people really die of Communism, or could it have been from unrelated causes?

Communicable communism.

 

[pecksniff]

There's nothing democratic about the Democrat Party.

And that is another lie.

 

[Rightguide]

They are not that bright here....the so called communist Dud identifies drive around in BMW's, has choiffers, lives in multi-million dollar homes....man, if that is Communism, maybe they should give it a try.

Communist Party officials do live a high life.

 

[pecksniff]

Communist Party officials do live a high life.

They do in countries where they rule -- but so does every ruling group in every country.

 

[zipman]

Well -- technically you can establish a political party that behaves in a way to undermine our existing due process and constitutional protections. It's kind of tricky on who you can define as an "enemy" -- would you consider the US Nazi party just a political party as well? What about a political party that advocated some form of genocide -- like for undesirables, however you want to define "undesirable"?

Overall, I tend to agree with you -- that our laws allow for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and unless you are advocating for some sort of violence against our institutions or citizens, then you have the freedom of expression.

That's already happened.

They're called the republican party.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Don't ever, ever think that, even when the likes of "Danang" Dick Blumenthal get all weak in the knees for them and can't stop gushing like a 12 year-old gurl at an N'Synch concert...he didn't get the memo:

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Helps Conn. Communist Party Celebrate 102nd Anniversary of CPUSA

"Senator Richard Blumenthal(D-Conn.) said he was “excited and proud” to help the Connecticut Communist Party celebrate the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA over the weekend."

https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/13/...t-party-celebrate-102nd-anniversary-of-cpusa/

Opining as an independent who hates politicians, the Republicans are closer to fascism than the Democrats are to Communism.

 

[WillJ8787]

Communist Party officials do live a high life.

Except that there is no real communist or socialists here in this party.

There are a lot of folks who want public programs for poor people, single mothers, the housing insecure, folks who don't have enough money to achieve higher education....but those are all Democrats mostly.

What do the other side want .... overturning the govt, owning Dems, prayers as opposed to real solutions after natural disasters and mass murder incidents with assault weapons.

fairly easy choice....just saying.

 

[ll74]

When the fuck have you ever cared what a Senator without the last name of Rand or Cruz said anything?

 

[Cubantripod]

The CPUSA is an American political party. It is not the enemy.

Let us never, ever go back to the disgraceful period of the Smith Act Trials.

Communism is incompatible our Constitution and what America stands for. It might as well be the enemy.