I'm just saying I don't think Communism is compatible with the Constitution.
Yeah, I'd agree. I think it flies in the face of the spirit of the Constitution, but that doesn't mean it still can't be voted in, in one form or another. And also, the definition of the word "socialism" is now clearly flexible and up for debate, so that whole conversation might be pointless. I think it would be smarter for the GOP to (a) moderate its position on the role of government and (b) work on changing hearts & minds, because people vote.
I'm not expecting that, by the way, but I think the GOP is at risk here of going too far with the whole "the government is the problem" thing.
Thanks for the civil conversation, by the way. I'm usually getting screamed at by now.

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Well, your POV is not far off a lot of Americans who have never had to experience a few days in a Gulag that people are sentenced to a lifetime of in Communist Russia, nor search for a gas station in a remote Iraqi village that was sarin-gassed by Saddam Hussein the dictator the day before with the press scared to shitless to explore it since releasing information would likely be edited out by the publisher who doesn't desire to see his family hanging from one of the walls in Baghdad.
We discovered the 100,000,000 estimated killings of China and the over 20,000,000 killings of Russians following World War II, which led to a very cold relationship with Stalin the murderer and Mao the mass murderer by President Dwight Eisenhower, who frankly, had his hands tied up with Hitler whose killings totalled out at around 15,000,000, when all was said and done, 6 million of whom were able-bodied Jews they gave a free train ride to any one of 500 "vacation locations" in Eastern Europe, where they met their fate when being "deloused" in showers after their long train rides to wherever they had their inconvenient populations stripped of clothes and jewelry prior to their showers. Their handlers were often young people who for the price of living knew their information would be a month of unbearable torture before their ultimate "shower." Other people the socialist Nazis murdered were anyone with a handicap that caused him to "look different," and loss of abilities too long to list here; Christian and Jewish ministers and public leaders of this ilk (starting to sound familiar?) etc. Anyone who inconvenienced Hitler's little band of hit-men was at risk to be targeted for paying the price of their belief system or disability in the face of invading forces, was deemed useless to the Nazis and sent to their deaths in their temporary vacation location.
Hitler snuck in the back door of German politics with nicey-nicey talk of the Germans (still smarting from WWI 20 years later) being empowered by him to "not take it anymore" from their enemies and people who were so helpless they became wards of the state for maintenance the Nazis had no use for. You could also just be too old and cranky to be assassinated in a remote location, disappearing with a quick routing of your possessions following your fatal and final disappearance. The socialist Nazis didn't care to pay for taking care of the helpless nor hospitals for the mentally insane, much less do for those born with conditions the Nazis considered the bad example of the way they appeared to be reason for removal from society by surreptitious means, not to mention the private hell they put Jewish German citizens through unless they were very, very gifted in an area of study or medicine that Hitler himself would protect with the guardian SS unless the subject became a socialist's problem.
The trouble with disabling a country's means of support through hard work, is that you can promise people a way out to get votes, but your successors can just as easily whiplash the new expense to the zero category and eliminate complainers by one means or another. Eventually, socialists (communists, etc.) just get tired of detaining people in separatist camps which become a fiscal nightmare, and simply abolish the people, which abolishes the socialist's problem. Absolute power over other human beings leads to an asocial viewpoint and merciless disposition.
Of that we must be chary. And I am very chary of one who lauds socialism while attempting to win people over to allowing them to "teach" children stuff (as in "It takes a village to raise a child." ~ Hillary Clinton, socialist extraordinaire).
Right now, the socialists in this country are bent on destroying their rivals by (1) Marginalizing conservatives and Republicans to be thought of by the public as idiots, miscreants, mentally ill, greedmongers, and every bad thought that comes to their cheeriest delusion. (2) Taking over the press by indoctrination in otherwise innocent-enough-looking outlets like a heavily-unionized teacher's association, where power to get and block curriculum is to target separating children from families through mores, belief systems, and acquiring a love for marginalizing parents, priests, ministers, and anyone who is a threat to the socialist with defensive rhetoric created by a central committee comprised of far leftist teachers, thinkers, lawyers, and others in the pocket of the socialists who basically target and isolate one public institution after another for complete and total control.
The people hurt the most are those who are idealists and are swept away by phase I of socialism, and in Machiavellian fashion of felling one by one by one of people's beliefs, do away with the institution target the socialists are bent on getting rid of.
You're at risk if you still think Mr. Biden, with his recent projections of his wrongdoing against President Trump, is a nice guy just trying to survive by keeping his resources a dozen steps hidden through money laundering it to death "for party" (not really, the man loves high living and ensuring that his kin get exclusives on his estate.) Normal? Of course, it looks normal. That's where the foolery comes in. I think Missouri people have a conundrum, because as quickly as they ask questions, the Socialists have an instant backup. It takes longer for the tried-and-true right to please the show-me people of that state. But when they see the light, the Socialists will likely double down on them, making their choice to do the right thing for America very hard, but not impossible.
We should be asking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Senator Feinstein, Senator Schumer, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, and Nancy Pelosi "show me."
Instead, going along with the bought-and-paid-for leftwing press/DNC mouthpieces exclusively, seems easier and far more entertaining than getting down to the niddy-griddy "Where are we going?" Paint your Wagon song says it best about the socialists. It goes (with important parts bolded):
Gold! Gold! Gold!
Gold! Gold! Gold!
Gold!! (whispered loudly)
Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
And come along
Where am I goin'?
I don't know
Where am I headin'?
I ain't certain
All I know
Is I am on my way
When will I be there?
I don't know
When will I get there?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way
Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
And come along
How appealing is that can o' beans to young strapling Americans who've been raised in the trust of families that didn't know their children were being communized and made ripe for fooling by the time they get to college that promises a better way of life than their parents had?
And the people that subsidized their children into "cool" universities are paying more than their love for children to go to school in time by being incarcerated for it. After all, their parents and friends in past years got away with it. Often it's disguised as scholarship donations for poor students. Who gets caught? My guess is anyone who didn't go through the socialist method. Everybody else who pays to play is a target for a nice, long jail sentence, courtesy of the lawyer system that is 85% Democrat and only 5% Republican.