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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm kinda glad Republicans are calling everything they don't like "socialism"...
And raising the specter of socialism.
Just imagine for a second, if our country became socialist, how oppressed we would all be... Heck, because of socialism as opposed to the non-socialist country we are now, we might even start imprisoning people for things politicians don't like and therefore become the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)because they think they can stir up the old "red scare" from the '50s. When McConnell said granting statehood to Puerto Rico and D.C. was socialism that proved that they're just slinging bullshit. Since when did representation in Congress become socialism? That was just stupid.
Zambero
(8,962 posts)Legitimizing Kim on a global scale with nothing to show for it, and portraying him as a fine human being who has the best interests of his people in mind. And former Soviet KGB honcho Putin as well. Did I forget to mention his brand name stuff still being made in China? Red Don richly deserves the title!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)China calls itself communist but Maoism is long gone, and Russia doesn't even pretend - it's now an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)about what North Korea is. Or the Socialist Republic of Vietnam?
But Trump has hammered home the idea that Venezuela and Cuba are the Marxist scum we have been warned about for oh so many years.
In the war of buzzwords, these things are the propagandists' tools.
Zambero
(8,962 posts)Repressive is repressive regardless of its place on the spectrum. And Putin is especially well versed in this. He cut his teeth with the Soviet KGB, eventually rising to the top. He is no longer a communist per se, but ruthless repression in order to maintain power and wealth is still very much his trade. The right wing in this country is quite adept at making similar types of association for propaganda purposes whenever it suits their purpose. They are bona fide experts at tapping into emotion and instinct in place of reason and intellect, to the point where we do not have anything close to a level playing field when it comes to promoting values and advancing issues that matter to people. So I find it especially ironic that Trump and his ilk manage to get away with anti-socialist fear mongering (Medicare for all? Gasp!), all the while kowtowing to and praising brutal authoritarians around the globe (Murdering a journalist? No worries!).
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)or their children? Who cares how many Florida voters are related to people still in Cuba?
We don't need any voters with family roots in Cuba, Venezuela, the Soviet Socialist Republic, or China. We'll just wrap our policies in a socialist flag and confuse everybody because socialism is such a fun word to taunt the R's with.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)That is going to be their strategy for 2020