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bruce's avatar

Nice obfuscation Ron as you continue to serve your father Satan. You will have to one day account to God for feeding on the sheep peddling your communist garbage not even bothering to wear your fake sheep outfit (a wolf in wolves clothing). You need to repent Ron, and come to God and seek Jesus as your lord. Karl Marx will only lead you straight to the pit as he has done all these years. Oh and yes the Biden administration is best described as fascist. Fascism is a form of socialism just to the right of communism, but both are extreme left. And it’s not Biden, as you well know. It’s Obama and his henchmen. And you did everything you could do to bring their fascist evil upon our nation. Repent Ron, you are evil to the core.

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Perry Weiner's avatar

Anyone can call anyone else anything, right? But words have meanings, albeit meanings that change through the decades, centuries, millennia. They take on news meanings, they carry different cultural weight, or via wishful thinking, simple ignorance of their original definition. But sometimes they change through insidious design, as when right-wing politicians and their acolytes use what they consider vicious labels, as when Trump calls Biden a socialist. The "simple ignorance" metamorphosis of *socialist* to denote the Keynesian-style social democracy of Scandinavia and other Western European countries, is--I suppose--useless for me to criticize. But *socialist* does denote the transitional phase before communism, according to Marx, et al. To further muddy the waters, Lenin himself said that Russia was far too under-developed to ever achieve *communism* and that the best it could hope for was state capitalism. Stalin was not a good thinker and he was a ruthless leader (like most of these he had a diagnosis, in his case--as in most--it was simple paranoia, but it the true, clinical sense of the word). Scanadanian countrie, to reiterate, are best labeled social democracies, as Bernie Sanders correctly labels his ideas, which are no more "socialist" than LBJ's, and in some ways, less so.

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