In the 50s, during the 2nd Red Scare, the exact same things were being said by the same extremist people. It started in 1946 when the Corporate Raiders discovered that Truman wouldn't cater to their every whims. And then continued all the way until Eisenhower had the Justice Department to look into the mess. There were over 100,000 people that was hurt when the real problem was more like 27. In the beginning, it was real but it got way out of hand before the party that was doing it finally came to it's senses.
But you will notice it's called the 2nd Red Scare. Almost the same thing happened but it was the other party starting in 1917 and running into the 1920s. Actually, it was pretty much the same ideological people but the two parties hadn't flipped. There was a huge scare when Lenin and his bunch won the Russian Revolution in 1917. Yes, there was a commie under every rug. And Socialists were all Communists. Finally, the Democrats had enough of this from their own party and ended it. But not before thousands of lives were ruined.
We have been in a 3rd Red Scare. Although it's still a Commie Socialist Bastard under every rug, what makes it run much longer is that the Radical Red Scarers have gained power. The Party of the Rump is using it to get even more power and to try and hang onto that power longer than they should. But, as always in America, America is starting to come to it's senses.
Bernie is NOT a Communists or a Socialist. He's a Social Democrat on par with many of the Scandinavian Countries that are highly successful. Yah, I know, you Party of the Rumpers are going to tell us all about how bad it is in those countries but you should note that there is a immigration from America to those countries, not the other way around. Even Rump has stated that he would welcome Immigration from those countries just not many take him up on his offer. Bernie and Warren are both Social Democrats. You Rumpsters keep saying that Social Democracy was founded by Karl Marx. In reality, it was founded by Eduard Bernstein and was in start contrast against the Marx teachings. While Marx wanted no Capitalism or Privately owned anything (everything is owned by the People as a whole) Bernstein promoted Capitalism but supported social programs. The first Social Democratic Countries all came about at about the same time and that was right around 1871. Today, countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Labour Party of Britain and almost every other western European Country is based on Social Democracy. The ones that aren't are the ones that get in serious trouble like Greece.
So when you and others are spewing "Commie" and "Socialist" you are just doing the 3rd red scare for exactly the same reasons and that is to give yourselves more power than others when you don't deserve it. And like the 1st and 2nd Red Scare, it's a lie.