What you fail to understand is that fruition of an ideal and the ideal itseflf are not the same. I can be a proponent of communism and live in a capitalist window dressed corporatism. I can push this idea of communism. That doesn't mean it immediately comes to fruition because I believe in the principles of communism while living in a corporatist society.
Dullard.
Ye, that is obvious. Of course a communist can live in a capitalist society.
But what is also is that the ideology which Obama has promoted for the past 4 years has nothing at all in common with communism.
Has he closed TV stations, arrested journalists and muzzled the media?
Yes. He has sensored media, arrested and prosecuted whistleblowers/journalists for reporting
Has he nationalised industries wholesale, de-listed corporations from Wall Street or put his cronies on the boards of hostile companies?
Yes. GE, just to name one.
Has he taken the dollar off the floating exchange rate mechanism?
What?
Has he started bugging students and arresting those who ask questions?
Yes, actually. People of opposing views are harrassed, including students.
No, he has not.
Yes, he has.
Nor would he ever support any of those actions.