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Why do democrats get upset when someone points out their ideas as communist? - eunice - 11-18-2012 01:05 PM
I've read a few headlines in the past 10 years about how a dem. gets upset for having their ideas labeled as communist or socialist. Is it because a republican calls them that? Why can't they just embrace their ideas for what they are? Other countries have embraced their communist and socialist politicians. Why is the word "communist" such a bad word?
- Cheese - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
Ask Ozzie Guillen
- Warren - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
Why does GOP get upset when called racists, sexist, and stupid?
- Blick Jeffries - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
They're liberals. They are too stubborn and they support communist ways themselves!
- Pluto C. Rat - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
It's because words can break my bones -- or at least they did in the schoolyard.
Please don't make me cry, you big 'ole bully, you...
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- Justin Thyme - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
They think of themselves as Progressives,the "politically correct" name for communist.
- TR0LL - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
For the same reason Republicans get upset when people call them fascist.
- obedientscene992 - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
Because they're not communists. Democrats support a mixed-market capitalist economy. I have yet to see any politician advocate collective ownership of any business.
- Guru Hank - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
If you have been able to read for at least 10 years, how is it that you managed to pick up so little knowledge of politics? European Communism only finished in 1989, and there must be at least some folk memory in your part of the woods about what their ideas were. Furthermore, the works of Marx and Engels are out of copyright now, and you can download them as audiobooks free and legally from the internet. You could then put them on your iPod and listen to them a little each day as you sit on the toilet, just like one of those language courses. You would know lots in just 30 days...
Also, you have used the word 'embrace'. I may be wrong on this one, but I think the word has been officially designated for use only when talking about the Islamic faith.
- BASH - 11-18-2012 01:13 PM
We just think it's sad that the GOP doesn't understand the difference between socialism, communism, Marxism, Maoism, and stalinism, while constantly accusing democrats of being all of the above.
No Child Left Behind failed our republicans.