Democrats and Communists

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Originally Posted by Pete F.

So now not only are they Socialists but they are also Communists.

Which "they" are you referring to? There are openly avowed Socialists in the Democrat Party holding public office. There is a verified infiltration of the CPUSA in the Democrat Party. And there are the millions of Democrat voters who don't know about the latter and are partially favorable to the former.

I believe that Republicans are effectively bringing us down the road to Communism and a totalitarian state, where the means of production and politics are controlled by the oligarchy.

I don't know if you watched the video. It's only about 11 minutes and packed with documented Communist infiltrators working in the Democrat Party. Yet you do not acknowledge that. You do not discuss that. You deflect to another subject. You claim that Republicans are bringing us to Communism, and totally ignore that the Communists are supporting and working in the Democrat Party. This is a very strange and unconvincing line of reasoning. Actually, it's illogical.

Wealth and political power have been concentrated over the past 50 years in fewer people, who reduce the ability of the lower classes to organize and increase the power of corporations to the point where some are close to being monopolies.
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When you frame your argument within a class structure you are in the realm of Marxist Speak. A free market basically has no well defined classes. It has flexibility and fluidity of movement within the economic hierarchy. A Marxist system has a well defined class structure in which there is no flexibility or movement--only entrenchment or extinction.

The only true and permanent monopoly is state monopoly. In free and open markets, monopolies don't actually exist. And the capture of market share by one entity in free markets is usually good for the consumer because it is made possible by competitive pricing and more efficient production. Market power in a free market is the result of competition, and can (and will) be toppled by competition and innovation. True progress, in markets and governance, is only achieved through freedom.

If you can document how Republicans more than Democrats are leading us to state control of our lives that would be enlightening. In the meantime, the most ruthless statist form of politics and government in the modern world has infiltrated the Democrat party, not the Republican party.