Can someone please tell me why he keeps using the word "communism"

[vapor2]

[Mz Pip]

1. It's a boogie man

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Fear sells.

[highplainsdem]

2. Because that's the label they intend to apply to Democrats. That's their idiotic strategy for the midterms.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Honestly, when did they stop applying it to Democrats?

He just thinks communist! (instead of socialist) is somehow turning it up to 11.

Because he’s old, and his worldview cast itself in cement when the nanny parked his ass in front of the TV in the 1950’s & early 60’s.

[Whyisthisstillclose]

3. His followers don't know the meaning of any big words.

They've heard Communism more than Socialism. So close enough for them. Morons.

[calimary]

28. Maybe they've discovered a whole new thrill.

Or a new word! Communism! Uh-oh…

Beware! Take care! Keep yer dogs in yer yards!

[Ocelot II]

4. It's a right-wing scare word (or it used to be, a few decades ago). He doesn't know what it is,

but neither does MAGA, so he trots it out as if it were still 1956 and Nikita Khrushchev had just announced that the Soviet Union would "bury" us. He has no new material.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Apparently, we are now communists when we question a 34X convicted criminal President.

Who's an abjugated sexual assaulter who won't release the 50% of the Epstein files that prove his pedo-crimes but also show how Trump laundered pilfered Russian assets in the 2000s.

[Endlessmike56]

6. Replaces Sleepy Joe Biden and Barack Obama

[Iggo]

7. Because we finally got through to the low info people how important roads and fire departments and social security is.

We successfully blunted the “socialist” slur, so now they have reverted to the “communist” bullshit.

[LilElf70]

8. Some people associate communism with

something bad. Ya now - Putin land.

And Donny knows that if you keep saying the same thing over and over, no matter how big the lie, people will start to believe it.

Socialism has come a long way since it was first associated with communism, which was over a century ago.

Just look around at all the social ideas that have been implemented in this country over the past 100 years. All for the reason to benefit society. We've come a long way, and honestly, I like it. Social programs overall, will create a better life for everyone. My kids and grand kids should profit from a having better life than the shit hole Trump has created today. And that's the reason younger voters are voting for candidates that support social programs.

We CAN have a better life, but it's going to take a massive effort. All I ask is to "stop, look and listen" to the progressive candidates.

[pat_k]

22. A liberal democracy that socializes segments like healthcare is still a liberal democracy.

Essentials like healthcare aren't f-ing commodities. You don't wake up one day and think "Gee, I'd sure like to inject myself with Enbrel every week. It costs more than I make in a month, but I deserve it!!

It's pretty f-ing simple.

Making America a nation we can be proud of is all about building a government that protects our individual rights while providing the public infrastructure and services we choose to provide ourselves.

Not a difficult concept to convey in conversations, in letters to editors, or in comments in newsfeeds to challenge the phony "left" propaganda that even our allies are falling for.

We need to call bullshit on the insanity. Don't just write off the propaganda. Be clear. Call bullshit.

What the various parts of the Pro-Democracy coalition -- whether Democrats, DSA, or Independents -- are advocating are the SAME things that a majority of this nation wants -- an end to corruption in government, universal health care, and more. Hell, most of what the current fascist corporatist Republican Party of today attempt to demonize as "communist" was part of the 1956 Republican platform.

In a nutshell, what we want is at the CENTER of our politics (less than 3 minutes)

Or the longer version, what they are calling "left" is a central throughline that defines the character of this nation across our history.

[vapor2]

10. thanks for your replies but threw me for a minute

Yes, low IQ crowd may or may not have heard of this word. He is sicker than I thought and said that communists don't respect the law (ROTFLMAO)

[Blues Heron]

11. they are rolling out the new theme, fox was using it earlier. its pretty corny at this point

[RockRaven]

12. Bogeyman of the demented degenerates who watch FUX.

Like him.

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. So communism BAD but Putin GOOD. I'm confused. It can't be easy being a Deplorable

and figuring out who to hate today.

[usonian]

15. Communism is defined by F-cks News.

Whatever people are trained to dislike.

His "lover boys" Xi, Putin, Kim. are pals, not evil communists.

[yardwork]

35. Putin and today's Russia are not communist or socialist.

[ColoringFool]

39. Putin isn't a Communist.

[usonian]

14. Magats have no connection between words and meaning or fact. Words are weapons.

Used for effect. That's why meaning often flips.

The attack words are all manure, just of a different color.

Welfare Mother, soft on crime, war in drugs. All of those were dogwhistles for racism.

Many are pure projection. "Every accusation is a confession"

And here is the party officials' response to these attacks.




Repost of https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1322&pid=120144

Plus.

[Boo1]

16. Because when somebody calls themselves

A socialist, most people dont know anu difference between that and communist. So that's what they are going to call them.

More reason the Democratic Socialist label is idiotic.

[moondust]

17. 2nd grade smear campaign

If the big bad gubment does something for The People instead of the private sector selling that something to The People for profit...that's comyunizum!!!

[dweller]

18. It was the only word

on his vocabulary list for the month .
He had to color it in red for extra credit
He pronounces it ‘ooga booga’





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[Midnight Writer]

19. He is a big fan of Roy Cohn, and Cohn made his mark as wingman for Tailgunner Joe McCarthy's commie hunt.

Cohn had the whole nation checking under their beds for commies in the 1950s.

Trump would like to gin up some of that good old-fashioned Red Scare.

[rampartd]

20. communist is a nebulously defined boogie man

if there are a thousand "card carrying" communists in the usa i'd be shocked.

but his cult are religiously preconditioned to KILL commies.

if he paints us red
we'll soon be dead.

the real answer is a twofer= anti cuba propaganda + boogie man.

as liberal commies we are giving aid and comfort to the cuban "totalitarians" and so on.

note on cold war propaganda.

the cold war propaganda focused on the midnight raids, the gulags, the show trials and the firing squads. you know, the things trump loves about russia.

no one in the cold war era cared who owned the "means of production," the soviets were outside the rule of law.

any of their purported difference between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" seems to have blurred as well.

one last note : trade union organizers are, to republicans, communists in their purest form.

[regnaD kciN]

21. "When all else fails..."

“Socialism” apparently doesn’t scare enough people anymore.

[Skittles]

23. because it works on his brain-dead base

even though most of them couldn't define communism if their lives depended on it

[multigraincracker]

24. Black and white thinking is a sign of a lack of

Critical Thinking. Turns out reality is gray.

[betsuni]

25. Election 2028, Battle of the "c" words: Democrats called "commies" from one direction, "centrists" from another.

[LeftInTX]

26. Because no one is stopping him

[LisaL]

27. Trying to scare people again

into voting for Republicans.

[Dunc]

29. MAGA doesn't understand a lot.

And they do not understand the difference between capitalism, communism or socialism.

[mahina]

30. Because someone told him to.

[DFW]

31. Because it worked for four of his greatest idols

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and Sheriff Buford T. Justice.

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Because he's mispronouncing constipation and nobody dares to correct him.

[Deminpenn]

33. Either because he thinks it's 1950 or thinks he's Joe McCarthy

nt

[malaise]

34. It's the same playbook

the US government and its CIA used in dozens of countries to destroy progressive movements and steal land and resources.
Wake up people.

[maxrandb]

36. Same reason he says he never raped underage girls

"If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes believable."

You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time, but....

He's trying to fool all of the people all of the time. The press helps him.

[ms liberty]

37. In his youth, they were the ultimate bad guys

Perseverating about communists is a new thing for him, but I suspect he's been reminded about them recently.

[orthoclad]

38. It worked for his mentor.

[IL Dem]

40. I think he is conflating Socialist with Communist.

Democratic Socialist equals Communist. He's so stupid that he doesn't know the difference.

I'll bet he was a supporter of Joseph McCarthy back in the day.

[DiamondShark]

41. Trump didn't get the 2008 upgrade.

We have been labeled marxist on hate radio for nearly two decades.

[David__77]

42. Fascists have always been mainly concerned with opposing communism.

[malaise]

43. True but do you remember Liberation Theology

During the Cold War, the U.S. government viewed the Latin American Liberation Theology religious movement—which advocated for the poor and systemic reform—as a Marxist threat and sought to covertly suppress it.
The prosperity gospel crowd, televangelists and Evangelical Xtians promoted all the RW BS.