It’s incredible that the Democratic Party can’t even come together to pass common-sense, firmly moderate and necessary legislation to begin making up for decades’ worth of austerity and inaction and you’ve still got Republicans calling them communists with a straight face.
The whole trend of labeling moderate Democrats as socialists and communists goes back to the 1990’s, when Newt Gingrich realized Clinton and the Republicans were in almost complete economic agreement and then just said screw it, keep calling them radicals.
And it totally worked.
And it totally worked.
It would be pretty incredible to see what the GOP would do with actual socialists or communists. You have to imagine their circuit boards would just spazz out and shoot so many sparks. And meanwhile, center-right to centrist Democrats are painted with the hammer and sickle.
The Democratic Party has absolutely rejected the Left and kept them isolated for forever and meanwhile they’re still being superimposed on pictures of Marx and Lenin while the Internationale plays.
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