I Was Getting Pretty Comfortable Being Called A Commie Pinko Bastard.

[NCTraveler]

Guess I'm just a Pinko these days. One more thing Comrade Trump has taken from me.

The Deplorables are Commie Fascist Bastards. I really never would have guessed this. The fact that Trump is in bed with them is not a shock to me. The fact that Freepers are justifying and excusing it really is shocking me. They do have lines they will draw in the sand. Seriously. I've seen it. Pretty sure I would have thought this to have been one of those lines.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Things the US and Totalitarian/authoritarian gov'ts have in common....

The use of walls
bans on travel beyond ordinary immigration law
censorship of media
use of party media
gulags and internment camps
surveillance of the general populace
political officers and apparatchiks installed into government agencies to spy
rampant nepotism, cronyism and corruption
militarism
attacks on the academicians and science
scapegoating up to and including grand conspiracies.

[JHan]

3. +++++++++

[pnwmom]

2. They are not communists anymore. They are authoritarians and oligarchs, not communists.

And the deplorable are just idiots.

[NCTraveler]

4. Imagery means something. Always has. Always will.

They are actually a form of "Democracy".

[Blue_true]

5. Freepers are fools and hypocrites. nt

[BainsBane]

6. They aren't commies

The Kremlin isn't communist, so being in bed with it doesn't make Deplorable Inc. commies.

They are traitors and fascist pieces of shit.

[NCTraveler]

8. I get that.

It's a form of democracy. Their own special little kind of fascism packaged up as a democracy.

Know what, I've never been a commie.

[BainsBane]

10. I was

Then I suddenly became a Third Way corporatist stooge in 2016. Just before then the same people insisted I was "too radical." I no longer give a shit what they call me.

[NurseJackie]

7. Ha! You made me think of this...

[NCTraveler]

9. Love it. nt.