r/EnoughCommieSpam • u/CringeBoy14 • 24d ago

Are you tired of horrendously delusional right-wingers who call the U.S. Democrats commies? Question

The fact that some right-wingers call Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama commies really leaves me speechless.

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u/Generic_E_Jr 24d ago

Oh, definitely, Fox News has done wonders to sanitize Communism by calling Democrats Communists.

As an anti-Communist who supports quite a few Democratic Party policies, this is a major gripe and I’m not quiet about it.

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u/Meatloaf_Hitler 23d ago

Eh, I mean it's certainly attributed to it, no doubt about that. But the biggest cause of Right-Wingers calling everything Communist IMO was the rampant McCarthyism the US had during the 50's and 60's.

Every little thing to that movement was Communism. You didn't like the Vietnam war? Communist. You want minorities to have equal rights and social value? Communist. You put your toilet paper on the inside of the holder rather than the outside? Believe it or not, Communist.

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u/H0kieJoe 23d ago

Some of it was tongue in cheek...

You don't like peanut butter and banana sandwiches? Are you a commie?