Burning Giraffe posted a link and quote from the Communist Party website, outlining from the Communist point of view, the benefits of the Obama candidacy. Unsurprisingly the debate has taken a rather defensive tone.
Kyryahn responds by saying,
And I'm pretty sure the KKK is strongly supporting McCain, and have speeches on how it's the 1st step towards an all white America without immigration etc, so what? You're not responsible for others' interpretation of you, of your message, of your actions.
Inkslinger retorts,
So what? Communism certainly isn't a threat today, no more than it was a threat in the 40's and 50s. Just a bunch of Ooga Booga the gullible right still clings to.
You guys are really having a tough time trying to get shit to stick to Obama, arent ya? Amusing...
Colin writes,
Somehow I doubt that the Obama Administration would nationalize American industry, erect an isolationist trade policy, promote workers cooperatives, implement massive wealth redistribution(as in the destruction of social class) and facilitate workers seizing the means of production.
Seriously some of you guys are just out to lunch on these issues.
I think it speaks to the commonality of conservatives throwing out the "communist" or "socialist" labels at Democrats every time Democrats support some government welfare program that instigates this kind of blind defensiveness. The inference drawn here is that the original poster was implying that Obama was a Communist or "Communist-Light". Of course, that wasn't what the article was about, and having read it myself, it is plain as day that what the Communist Party Chair is so enthusiastic about is America's embrace of the Leftward shift the Obama candidacy represents.
While it is usually the Republicans screaming that Democrats are moving left, this serves as a more objective verification of that, since the Communist Party (being at the extreme left) is also noticing such a shift. Then consider that one of the most liberal (big government) Republicans is now the Republican Nominee, it is evident that the fulcrum of American Politics has shifted leftward, which means that we can expect to see a more Social Democratic agenda in this country.
As Burning Giraffe would go on to say,
This isn't about sticking anything to Obama. I'm not calling him a communist. I'm very simply pointing out why the Communist Party is excited about Obama's candidacy, because of a philosophical overlap that should absolutely concern libertarians and maybe some Republicans as well. You can poo poo the issue all you like, but this is relevant.
But again, in their defense, if Republicans and Libertarians were less likely to irrationally accuse Democrats of being closet-communists, they probably wouldn't react so defensively to such an innocent post.
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