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TreasonousBastard

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7. But in the electoral silly season hardly anyone knows that, or cares. They may even be confused...

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 23, 2019, 12:33 PM

Jun 2019

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.

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I'm kinda glad Republicans are calling everything they don't like "socialism"... [View all] ck4829 Jun 2019 OP

It shows that they either don't know what socialism is or don't care The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #1

Trump in turn could be portrayed as being a Commie sympathizer Zambero Jun 2019 #2

Except that neither Russia nor China - especially Russia - are really Communist any more. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #3

But in the electoral silly season hardly anyone knows that, or cares. They may even be confused... TreasonousBastard Jun 2019 #7

Authoritarianism blurs ideological lines Zambero Jun 2019 #8

Yeah, who cares how many votes we get from people who fled the specter of socialist dictatorships, pnwmom Jun 2019 #4

They are chomping at the bit to use the socialist label Dream Girl Jun 2019 #5

I don't understand wat you're saying about incarceration though Dream Girl Jun 2019 #6