When did the GOP start using "dirty commies!" as a political ploy?
2013 Jun 12, 6:32am 6,583 views 14 comments
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Tenpoundbass
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2013 Jun 12, 8:19am
The Dixiecrat, their ancestors, and their descendants have always been evil; it's just an evil, Southern culture much like the culture of the Middle East and for much the same reasons.
Yeah gotta watch out for Kooter, when no body is watching he stomps on his John Deere hat, and sports a turbin, and his wife beater doubles as a burqua for his wife.
New Renter
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2013 Jun 12, 8:25am
The Russians were not kind to their former overlords.
Yes, but that has to do with concentrated power, not the economic system of Communism.
Economic systems are like underwear. You change them whenever you need to.
The killing of the czar and the decades of horrors which followed were used to demonize communism. Sure the economic system of communism may not inherently result in crazy nutcase dictators destroying everything in sight but given what happened in China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, and pretty much every place Communism was tried hasn't helped the case for it.
Economic systems are like underwear. You change them whenever you need to.
Lets start by cutting back on the FIRE industries.
Dan8267
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2013 Jun 12, 12:12pm
China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, and pretty much every place Communism was tried hasn't helped the case for it.
Have you noticed that all those nations are allies or friendly with each other and Russia? I don't think that's a coincidence.
History could have easily played out differently with Communism being associated with Western Europe or small tropical nations or anything else.
I don't think that Communism is a good economic system for large economies, but I based that opinion on reasons that apply equally to Capitalism. Neither system scales well because they concentrate rather than distribute power and control. Distributive systems are inherently more scalable than centralized ones.
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Of course communists and socialists didn't really exist prior to the revolutions first in Russia then elsewhere. But aftewards, and especially from the 50's and onward they sure made convenient boogiemen for right to use as something to claim would happen whenever they didn't get their way or if they were clearly losing a debate:
" Oh yeah? pass that bill and communists will show up on your doorstep tomorrow!"
" I disagree with that magazine article. Must have been written by communists who snuck into the newsroom at night and re-wrote them!"
" Oh yeah? Well even though I am clearly losing this debate, its because you all are communists in disguise!"
This tactic seems to have become a long-standing stalwart in the right's limited number of tools in the ole' toolbox. But surely before this they must have had other means to debate against something? I am rather curious what the GOP was like in the days before using communists as such a convenient ploy.