Calling someone a communist or socialist is the latest duckspeak from minitrue. It’s intended to suppress all thought. It’s also intended to be impossible to refute. It’s like if you were trying to muscle in on a cave dive rescue of some kids and suggested the rescuers use your submarine, and then they tell you your submarine is useless, so you insinuate that they are pedophiles. It’s a meaningless tar-baby statement meant to distract from meaningful discussion.

The irony of these statements is Harris’ father is an actual Marxist who doesn’t speak to his daughter partially because she is an ideological opposite.

I feel like either -

A) people hurling Karl Marx around have never actually read and considered his writings

B) they are being intellectually dishonest and creating the pretext for ideological oppression

Or, mostly likely c) all of the above

I am sad our future has taken this turn into darkly oppressive dystopia. I still think we can save things and get back to a world where all political views hash out compromise, but I fear we aren’t going in the right direction with no clear leader of right minded cooperation emerging from the cacophony. I mourn that my daughter will live in the world the conservative right is constructing for her generation - one that rolls back everything my grandparents generation gifted to me.

I mean Fox news removed the stock market ticker and started saying saying 'we will be poor and we will be happy' and 'we shouldn't be consuming so much stuff' so the Fox News/Trump administration talking heads?