Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> Those of us who know what those terms mean don't throw them around.


Having had friends in the German Democrat Republic and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and visiting them, I saw 'marxism/socialism/communism" up very close and personally. I know what those terms mean...I didn't visit as a rich moneybags Western tourist, I lived with them in their own homes. All were humiliated that they had to live under such a crummy system, and that included the Party members with nice jobs, homes, and perks like Western travel and consumer goods, etc...

> I've probably met a few Marxists or Communists living in and around a university
> town for the past 40-odd years, but the presence of Marxists or Communists
> in American politics is nil.


BLM and "Critical Race Theory" have marxist/neo marxist roots...and both are now "large" features of daily American life...

Locally here, there are a number of local elected officials and unions that are heavily pro - marxist...I'd bet there are in the People's Republik of Ann Arbor, too...

Then there's that old socialist Muppet fraud Bernie Sanders, he was so lazy when young that he got kicked out of a commune, didn't want to pay for utilities so sponged off of his neighbors' power source, and honeymooned in the USSR [!!!!] For a guy that has essentially done *nothing* for his entire life, he sure gets a lot of "publicity", lol...AND he is fairly well - off, he certainly is not averse to enjoying "the rotten fruits of capitalism", such as multiple homes, etc...

AOC aka "Comrade Prada" and her squalid goon "squad" are all marxists...

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Greg