You have fools on this board that still say that NAZI Germany was a "socialist" country because the word "socialist" was in the name of Hitler's political party.
The problem is that there's no way to know if (a) they really buy the stuff their approved media is telling them, or (b) they're just playing partisan games to troll.
It's difficult to believe they really believe this stuff, but....
There is no partisan game.
I am NOT a Republican.
Over the past 20 years, I have seen enough to know what the fuck I am talking about.
Go back to some of my first posts on USMB.
You are obviously concerned about it as much as I am, otherwise you would not have started this thread. You know good and goddamn well that Joe Biden is an empty suit who will be controlled by the Marxist element of your party.
I was concerned about hidden neo-communist bullshit back as early as 1997. Tell me, which media type put that in my mind?
Or, was it the fact that despite being a student at the most conservative, pro-America public University in the entire fucking world, I was hearing Marxist bullshit from the mouths of the goose-stepping professors? Was it some talk radio hack telling me to watch out for the new red wave? Or, was it the FACT that my essay test scores went through the roof when I used the "communist ideal" as my basis for discussing any and all topics?
Maybe you have a point when it comes to others who have been influenced by media types, but I reached that conclusion on my own, based on my own experience experience. And it is A FACT!!!
I began to recognize Marxists who try to hide who they really are. My college experience lead to my ability to see through their manipulated language and chameleon-like antics. Before I figured it out, I would write essays arguing against the nonstop societal grievances that clearly were not there. It all suddenly made perfect sense, and I figured out the pattern and the real message or meaning of these certain Maxist-manipulated words, once I removed their generally-excepted, common-usage meaning, and attached the Marxist meaning:
"equality" (not equal rights, but equal results)
"justice" (not related to the legal system, but to the economic system)
"level playing field" (meaning no person gets to benefit from personal advantages)
Like I said, I can spot the commie shit almost immediately.
The TRUTH that everybody needs to remember is that Communists do not go away. They may change their name to a hilariously ironic label like "liberal" or they may take on a decidedly non-Marxist moniker like "progressive." They may take a softer Marxist name like "socialist" but they are all still Marxists. They are still commies.
They don't go away.
They hide their real agenda.
They mock and ridicule when you call them out, and lie up and down pulling the Keyser Soze routine (greatest trick), swearing they just want fairness, and "we're all in this together."
They do exactly what you are doing now.
Maybe it is YOU, Mac, who has been media brainwashed?