What's a communist?
Ask someone from any communist country on earth and you'll get a different answer. The world doesn't fit into neat little text book definitions. But I will say, Joseph McCarthy got it more right than wrong. I've witnessed the country going to hell in real time for more than 60 years. Starting with communist sympathizers being hired by college administrations in the late 40s to 50s. Which was the precursor to our current govt halls of indoctrination at every level of education.
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