Discussion on Communism and Politics

Communism. Communism. Communism. Communism is a loser,

and it always will be.

The president has spoken on several occasions

about the dangers that communism poses to Americans.

It's like a cancer.

You gotta cut it out.

You gotta cut it out fast.

And this is totally bizarre.

This is a full-blown communist revolution.

We're fighting communism on our own shores.

Things are not looking good for the GOP in November.

These are numbers that Republicans do not want to see going into a midterm election.

One might think that you would try to do something to show

that you are working on the economic issues that Americans say that they really care about,

but you would be wrong.

Communism is on the ballot this November.

What they're trying instead is a little bit of a red scare.

These are hardcore, godless communists.

They're running against communism.

This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence.

The State Department recently put out a report alleging a decades-long plot by Cuba to inculcate communism in American shores.

You'll live in squalor. There will be no food.

There will be no housing.

There will be no military.

There will be no law and order.

There will be no nothing.

You'll suffer a death. That's what happens.

In places like New York, Americans have elected Democratic socialists.

When they say social Democrats, we're social Democrats.

It sounds so nice. It's not nice.

It's a very dangerous term.

But Democratic socialists aren't communists, first of all.

And second of all, their Democratic socialism looks an awful lot like New Deal liberalism,

like something that's very much part of the American political tradition.

This entire race was about the question of affordability.

It's clear that when the administration and its allies say communism, they kind of just mean anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan.

But nonetheless, it's worth taking a little bit seriously the claim that communism is on the rise, and it's not.

It is true that more Americans have a positive view of socialism.

And that has a lot to do with the profound failures of capitalism over the last 20 years.

Americans who remember the financial crisis.

Americans who are looking at, again, rising prices.

At a labor market that's difficult to break into if you're young. Food insecurity.