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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2018, 06:01 PM Aug 2018

1950s GOP--'Better dead than red!' 2018 GOP--'Better red than dead!' (Red stands for Russian)

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1950s GOP--'Better dead than red!' 2018 GOP--'Better red than dead!' (Red stands for Russian) (Original Post) bobbieinok Aug 2018 OP

The "Russians" are not communists anymore lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #1

Well said n/t emulatorloo Aug 2018 #2

Add white supremacist and fundamentalist orthodox Christian. enough Aug 2018 #3

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

1. The "Russians" are not communists anymore

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 06:10 PM

Aug 2018

and they have more in common with our own GOP / right wing authoritarians than they have any resemblance to communists.

They love authority
They have an .1% that owns everything.
They hate journalists
They hate gays
They actively push their own propaganda (similar to the communists)

emulatorloo

(44,131 posts)

2. Well said n/t

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 06:13 PM

Aug 2018

enough

(13,259 posts)

3. Add white supremacist and fundamentalist orthodox Christian.

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 09:29 PM

Aug 2018

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