Reply #8: No, they don't [View All]

However what they're trying to do is stir up this chain in people. Socialism = Communism = USSR = Stalin = Evil

Thankfully this chain of fear is being broken down by the fact we now have voters who never so much as sniffed the cold war. My little sister was born a few months after the breaking of the Berlin Wall, and voted straight liberal (though not necessarily Democrat...) in November, and plans to do the same thing in the midterms and any municipal elections that crop up.

The generations before the Cold War wanted socialism. The generations after the cold war want socialism. It's just the baby boomers who are squealing in anguish about the thought that we'll turn into the "Evil Empire"