Here's the worst part: These folks really believe this.
What's not to believe?
What is communism, specifically?
Well what is it Mac? Let's pretend that hundreds of millions didn't die under communist rule.
You really don't know what communism is, and yet you're terrified that it will happen here?
Does that really sound like a reasonable position to you?
It won't happen here, but that won't stop hard leftists from making the rest of us miserable by trying....again and again....like cockroaches....they will never ever ever ever....
...ever ever ever...
(20 minutes later)
....ever ever ever quit trying to make it happen!!!!
EVER.
You obviously do not know what socialism is.
Socialism is not a political system.
A political system is how you make political decisions, like a democracy, a representative democracy, a theocracy, a dictatorship, an oligarchy, etc.
Socialism is just how much influence government is allow to have over economics.
If government has no influence over economics, it is Anarchism or Libertarianism.
If you have some public enterprise but not much, that is socialism.
If all enterprise is public, then you have communism.
All good societies have always been socialist, since things like schools, health care, transportation, utilities, etc., should almost always be public.
The diagram with the Hammer and Sickle is state capitalism, because Stalin killed all the communists and socialists until he was able to control a profit motivated dictatorship benefiting him.