Why are Democrats called communists?

Question

It is a very unfair characterization of the party. I am a democrat and have never once thought about turning this countyr into a communist state, nor do i beleive that communismwill or ever work as a good government. I am from New Jersey and most people i know are democrats, but not once have i ever heard them speak of communism in a romantic fashion or even heard them suggest communism as a form of government in this country! so why am i being called a commy? The people out their who do label us commys, please explain why?

Answer 1

It's just shows how our ability to respect our differences has deteriorated so badly. If you're a democrat, you're a commie. If you're a republican, you're a facist. This country has lost all sense of proportion and has run to the extremes. We can't talk to each other. All we seem to know is how to scream at each other.

Just remember that people who accuse you of being a commie are nothing more than insecure republicans who can't stand a point of view different from theirs, so they have to try and insult you.

On the flip side, if you find a democrat calling a republican a facist, you may want to gently tell them to knock it off, because their actions are no better.

Answer 2

They're referring to how in communism, the government takes EVERYTHING you have, and decides what you need and provides it for you. That is where our country is headed. It is not just Democrats though. It is ALL government. Every day we pay MORE taxes, and have LESS say in what it is used for. I believe our founding fathers fought the FIRST revolution over the exact same thing. By the way, the taxes the colonials payed were nothing compared to what we pay now. When will the NEXT revolution happen?

Answer 3

Why? Because this is the Internet, and people like being stupid when they *think* they're anonymous. Really, I can't think of any other explanation that covers it all.

Honestly, I've ran into a grand whopping total of maybe....eight, nine people online who knew *how* to have a fair discussion without using slurs, ad hominem (personal) attacks, or doing the Godwin/reverse Godwin thing (calling a right-winger/someone who disagrees with you a Nazi, or calling a presumed lefty/someone who disagrees with you a Communist, Stalin, or Pol Pot). And I've been online, on the Web that is, since 1998. So that's about one coherent person, on average, a *year* really. Edit: Not counting current contacts here on Answers, as I haven't really debated anyone here on much of anything. Honestly.

The rest just sling insults and pander to the worst possible stereotypes, because they can't be bothered to think and touch-type at the same time, never mind pointing their little clicker thingy over to that "Check Spelling" button or using any punctuation.

And this is just your "natural" troll for you. Never mind the "trolls on the payroll" that killed the old-school Usenet newsgroups with flames and spam, killed the old Yahoo News Discussion Boards, and still hang around making *this place* here on Answers unpleasant for the kids and teens here. Yes, you heard me, some folks are *paid* good money after bad to get online and spew the same old, lame old stereotypes (mainly about political, social and religious issues), just because that Fox News doesn't seem to be working out for those company shills lately. Or like that Colbert guy put it once: "Reality has a liberal bias! You can't handle the *truthy*!"

So yeah. This is the internet, and many folks here are just too stupid for words. At times it really does look like the proverbial Million Monkeys randomly trying to bash "shakespeare" out of "alerjoiasdfnoainerml;nfe;lkwer;lmdnn...." and the like.

I hope this helps. ^_^ Thanks for your time!

Answer 4

I think it's because theoratically the democrats are supposed to believe in a big government and the republicans are supposed to believe in a small government.
Look around the past few years: Wire tapping, unwarranted and unlimited spending, the patriot act, increased IRS/ CIA intrusions into regular citizen's lives, police videotaping of peaceful political and/or antiwar demonstrations...Does and can government get any bigger than it's gotten?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Most Democrats either in office or running for president (With the execption of the Blue Dog Democrats) are socialist democrats who believe the government who should have control of property, healthcare, wealth redistribution.

If the true Democrats would take back control of their party. (Same thing conservatives are trying to do with the Republicans. The characterization will go away.)

Socialism is the basis for Communism. Marx and Engels wrote that the natural progression is that socialism should be established for a few years and then you can move into communism which is true communal property with the govrnment owning everything.

That is why Democrats are called Commies. They are on the steps. The people that call them that are trying to inform people of what they are really saying and what it will become if things continue they way the Democrats plan.

Answer 7

i think the right-wingers started it, since most of them are war-mongers and like any kind of war [physical, verbal, etc] so they're trying to scare people into believing that we're bad and messed up in the head.
but then again, they never back down even if they know they're losing so they want to get as many people on side. they're using what happened in east europe as propaganda against us. which really is quite tragic, seeing as they can't come up with something more up-to-date

Answer 8

While the leaders of the GOP are certainly not dumb, their ardent ,my way or the highway attitude , certainly appeals to the ignorant rank and file of the GOP . They call names that have no value whatsoever to the discussion , ,example: Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter) and in turn are aped by the legions of the ignorant tools that the leadership preys on for support and money. Their successful , for awhile, ad campaign that uses terror and hate for taxes motivates the dumbest of our society to blindly follow them, not knowing that every day they loose more to the GOPs , pro corporate agenda.

Answer 9

Its known as demonizing your opponent. Personal attacks on your opponent that drive up negatives are known to be an effective tool of propaganda. If you can get the public to think with emotions rather than with their mind, you do not have to put forward good proposals of your own or defend them when the other side raises questions about them.

Answer 10

Mostly because people throw around words without knowing what they mean -- because words have emotional triggers.

Communists want all property to be owned by the govt (by the community) -- obviously nobody in the Democratic party is trying to forbid all private property ownership.

Democrats are largely split between liberals and socialists -- the way Republicans are largely split between fiscal conservatives and neo-cons. In both cases, the members of each party share a civil agenda, but differ on their economic policies.