This has been around and used by Republicans since 1919 - 1920.
2007-09-19 04:31:42 · 24 answers · asked by alphabetsoup2 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
truthsfifth, the "red scare" swept the county in 1919-1921.
2007-09-19 04:38:02 · update #1
billyd, ads accusing JFK of being an appeaser, a communist, and anti-american ran in the Dallas papers the day JFK was assasinated. Conservatives have used the same rhetoic for almost 100 years.
2007-09-19 04:39:55 · update #2
It's a scare tactic. The Republican party has riden the wave of public fear for years now. It worked in that facist McCarthy's time and it still works today. If any of these morons have actually lived in a Communist country, they would be quite aware of the difference.
The American system of government works best as a mix of capitalism and socialism. Moving it to either extreme would destroy us.
2007-09-19 05:07:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's not true at all; Republican only started spewing that out after JFK. By the way some democrats do have moderate to strong socialist leanings. Not Marxism, but similar to European styled Social Democracies (not that there is anything wrong with that).
If you don't believe me why don't you go on-line to the communist party of the USA. They say themselves that there are many communist thinkers in the democratic party.
2007-09-19 04:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by billy d 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
enable's turn the question...why do liberals purchase into conspiracies concerning climate replace and 9/11 , yet no longer into Obama's origins? For the checklist I do have faith in climate replace...it happens daily, there's a extreme temperature and a low temperature, see the climate adjustments. i think that Obama is a socialist, in accordance along with his movements as the two a Senator and our President. in case you could no longer see this, you're in denial. besides the undeniable fact that which comprise your exhibit call, you likely choose Obama to socialize our u . s . a ....
2016-10-09 11:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by hussaini 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, conspiracy theories have to maintain some ounce of truth for them to be even considered theories. This "theory" is merely a baseless lie that has been peddled throughtout history as a means of demonizing and discrediting opponents.
As for the poster who complained about conservatives being referred to as Nazis:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
Thus, the far-right fringe being labelled as "Nazi-like" is justified in this instance as such extremists will swallow up anything their self-proclaimed leaders will tell them.
2007-09-19 05:20:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Is there anything socialist about:
Government funded abortions?
Government mandated or controlled health care institutions?
Rejection of all religious reference in government?
Total gun bans?
The nationalization of utilities?
Government supported employee collective bargaining agreements?
Open border migration?
The DSA Economic Justice Agenda?
Granting immediate permanent resident status to all undocumented workers and establishing an expeditious and non-punitive road to citizenship?
De-funding the US military?
Social pluralism?
Business in popular servitiude?
The growth of PAC-driven,candidate-based, entrepreneurial politics?
Supporting weakening the role of the US as an international leader?
Political correctness?
How can anyone come to any other conclusion???????
No conspiracy theories are needed!
The Socialist Party stands for a socialized health care system based on universal coverage, salaried doctors and health care workers, and revenues derived from a steeply graduated income tax.....http://sp-usa.org/campaigns/
Hillary Clinton has said NOTHING different!!!
2007-09-19 05:13:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well not actually a theory at all. More like a fact. The earth is round type of fact. You use the word progressive, what the hell is that, but a slicker version of socialist. Your party advocates more government run social programs do they not. They want to redistribute the wealth, do they not. That my Alphabet soup friend is socialist, and further steps toward communism. Now you can call it what you want, you can color it any shade you want, but it does not change the fact, that it is socialist in nature, and that anyone advocating it would be considered a socialist.
2007-09-19 04:40:58 · answer #6 · answered by libsticker 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I don't consider myself a Republican anymore, but I used to, and I never thought of Democrats as "communists". However, I did and do think of them as socialists.
Socialism:
"Refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation."
Is this not why Democrats push welfare, "universal healthcare" and other such income confiscation/redistribution schemes? What is that if not socialism? It certainly meets the definition.
2007-09-19 04:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by jeffersonian73 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Democrats are not communists nor are they socialists, however they do support various notions that have been practiced under communist governments, but to a lessor degree.
2007-09-19 04:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Nah, that CT has been around for years. Definitely not the biggest.
2007-09-19 06:48:34 · answer #9 · answered by Bleh! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are slightly left wing but not enought to be communist or socialist as republicans are slightly right wing but not enough to be fascist.
2007-09-19 04:48:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋