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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLibertarians are saying some who started BLM were communists. So
were some who germinated the New Deal ideas. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Extremes often come up with new ideas. BLM has accomplished so much. It was started and grew thanks to the hopes and dreams of many. It is a threat to the right as it makes room for politicians to do good legislation. It gives kids wings. It brought americans together as opposed to the divisions Republicans rely on. Of course they are going to call it communist. Most people in the world want to cooperate to do good things like making sure authorities value lives the same. Don't fall for the communist slur like some did in the 2020 election. What Biden is doing is governance. What BLM did was bring us together.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)applegrove
(118,814 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,641 posts)My company had a bar in Zhongshan started back in the 90's. Everyone I met wanted to 1) practice their English and 2) try to market them-self, an idea, or a company. Capitalists, all. Where are all the Communists that Republicans are afraid of?*
*just kidding
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)applegrove
(118,814 posts)on latin-x voters in Florida among many across the country in 2020. Trump is stuck at 46 or 47% nationally and they need to peel off some people who greatly admired BLM suddenly last Spring when the treatment AA received at the hands of some police could no longer be denied and so many came together. So many came together and liked being together. That is the greatest fear of the right.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I think it is a lost cause to try to reach out to them. If you remember they were very angry with Bill Clinton at the end of his term.
They tend to have false beliefs on BLM. The Cuban talk radio in Miami is very conservative.
Mexican-Americans here in Arizona hate Trump which is a state Biden won.
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)Well if being against racism makes someone a commie... just call me a pinko....
Sheesh.
StClone
(11,688 posts)Is richly deserving some award. A shark calling a puppy dangerous type straining of credulity.
Libertarianism's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad ideas. It goes like this:
Simply stated, the idea holds that when groups of individuals are left alone, without government oversight or regulation, they will spontaneously form a social and economic order that is superior in organization, efficiency, and the conveyance of information than an order arranged from the top down through centralized planning.
https://theweek.com/articles/443462/libertarianisms-terrible-horrible-no-good-bad-idea
applegrove
(118,814 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)except to the morons doing the squealing and shrieking.
Most in the GOP base wouldn't know what a "communist" is.
applegrove
(118,814 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,647 posts)Why would anyone here fall for that crap?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Some of the organizers called themselves "trained Marxists" but I don't think that is communist. Most countries are in between and not as capitalist as the US.
BLM was started under Obama after the killings of Trayvon Martin & Michael Brown. They have been pretty consistent in their demands.
applegrove
(118,814 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)The propaganda has rotted their brains. They don't trust the MSM so they turn to OAN or Newsmax TV. They even stopped watching Fox News because they called Arizona for Joe Biden. Many don't even believe Biden won the election.
applegrove
(118,814 posts)right wing extremism. People enjoying a country that strives to be inclusive and vibrant are not people seathing and ready to seath somemore.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)And slave owners took out insurance on their slaves.
So they better have some interesting opinions on those three things too.
LeftInTX
(25,567 posts)They say Biden is a communist....
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)It's kind of funny in a way, the twists in time. They were terrified of the Bolsheviks and saw nothing wrong with Czarist Russia. They were afraid that if it succeeded the movement would spread. FDR terrified them and they fought bitterly against him. Anybody who told them how to treat their workers was a communist to them. Anybody putting any controls on their money had to be communist. Then came WWII and the enemy of my enemy was my friend. Russia was our ally. Russia took terrible losses in the war. More than any other nation. After that people like McCarthy and other right wingers came along and demonized those who had worked with a nation that had been our ally. While shamelessly making a name for himself he made pariahs of people on heresay, anything for another headline. He even tried to demonize Gen. George Marshall. RWs still thrive on division and hate.