If this is communism in the USA it resembles capitalism a whole lot..
The problem with the Democrat party is that it harbors the radicals who would love to see us a more communist country. Unfortunately the mindset of communists and the mindset of many left leaning democrats is the same in how they view the world.
Communists thrive on being able to break us down into classes, the bourgeois and proletariat. They cant fathom the idea that in America we all have the freedom to move up and down the social ladder (so to speak)
Direct quote from the communist manifesto pg 22
"In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour. In Communist society, accumulated labour is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer."
Sounds great but in communist and leftists society, this leads to working class people always remaining working class people. In the so called bourgeois society ..as found in the United States
working class people can become business owners and much greater. No ones children need to remain working class.
Many Democrats in power, out of touch with working America also view us as divided, not a whole society and they think they are the only ones who can fix it, just as Communists believe only their centralized power can lead people around by the nose to promote fairness.