I encountered a Trump voter who spoke about "communist-democrats" Saturday.

[guillaumeb]

I was gathering signatures with a friend of mine for a local person who is running for office in my area. A person from one household was signing my petition as my friend was speaking with the neighbor next door.
This Trump voter came out of the house, followed my friend as she joined me, and spoke to both of us about "communist-democrats", and other Trump brand idiocy.

My friend attempted to reason with the Trump voter, but reason never works on the unreasonable.

And that is, and will remain, a huge problem for the near future as 70 million US voters believe that up is down and down is up.

What is critical, in my view, is to motivate the 33% who did not vote, or were prevented from voting.

[sfstaxprep]

1. We Need To Begin Reffering To Them As Facsist Republicans nt

[guillaumeb]

2. The problem is that many cannot be reached.

Yes, many are fascists, but millions are living in their alternative facts universe.

[sfstaxprep]

11. If They're Going To Lump Us All Together As "Communist" Socialist Democrats

It's only fair we refer to ALL of them as Fascist Republicans.

[guillaumeb]

13. Fair, and in many cases, accurate. eom

[jmbar2]

3. Wait a minute....

I thought we were all socialists? Is communist sort of a scarier socialist?

[guillaumeb]

5. It is everywhere on right wing media.

It is obvious that for many GOP voters, words have no real meaning.

Orwell would have understood.

[JHB]

9. Yes. According to wingnuts we had a socialist economy during the Eisenhower years...

...even though they'll deny it if you put it that bluntly.

Eisenhower was a Republican, so if he's socialist any Democrat is a communist. Q.E.Dumbass.

[4Q2u2]

4. "communist-democrats"?

Is that like a Chimera?
Or possibly a Pegasus?
Two things that are fabled to be one, but is Fantasy.

I get it now. That is when you get to pick Red or Red for your Party colors???????????????
I am lost who is the commie now?

[guillaumeb]

6. People who say things like this are unreachable.

Logic and fact do not matter.

[BlueLucy]

7. It's not out of no where.

Portland mayoral candidate wore a skirt plastered with faces of Communist leaders and her campaign manager openly bragged about being a communist. We have our share of people on our side who have in the past praised communist dictators. If we continue to do crazy things like this we'll lose.

[dubyadiprecession]

8. I always screw with those nut jobs..

I tell them if they don’t shut up, they will be put on a list for interrogation in one of comrade Soros, gulags in 2021.

[Initech]

12. I had someone a few months ago use this little number:

"Democrats are Nazis because they believe in socialism and Nazis have 'national socialist' in their name."

How the fuck do you respond to that one?

[guillaumeb]

14. You cannot.

Facts do not matter to those living in the alternative facts universe.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. My response to the Nazi thing is

If Nazis were Socialists then Saddam Hussein's Elite Republican Guard were members of the GOP.

[guillaumeb]

15. And a large portion of them are truly unreachable.

Sadly, Fox and the right wing media machine have convinced them that up is down.

[AmericanCanuck]

16. We do have some people proudly calling themselves socialist

That does reflect poorly on the party and we get into being called communist.

There is actually very little difference between the two and 95% of the voters do not know the difference.

We lost Florida because of the socialist label. Why put the Democrats on the defensive to make them say they are NOT socialists?

When one is defending, one is losing.

[guillaumeb]

17. But the point for the tacticians who create these memes is to put people on the defensive,

and to scare uninformed voters.
And judging by what I read and hear from many Trump voters, it is working.

The issue is calling a centrist like Kamala Harris a socialist reveals that the speaker either has no idea what socialism is, or the speaker is lying.

[AmericanCanuck]

18. If we didn't have anyone in our party calling themselves socialist

we wouldn't have that problem would we?

[brooklynite]

20. Try this: "Obama had 8 years in office, 2 with control of the House and Senate..."

"What Communism did he and Biden implement?"

[guillaumeb]

21. Trump's delusional followers are immune to fact based argument. eom