They don't consider themselves commies because the commie indoctrination they have succumbed to doesn't use the word "communist".
But they are still commies. Of the same brand that are in China, the ones who snitch out their neighbors for an extra onion on the plate, and drag pregnant women into the street for their compulsory late term abortions.
How much time have you spent in China? Is this the same China that american corporations are clammoring to do business with? Are you giving them a piece of your mind on their cooperation with the "commies"?
It was way before that
This use of the Politics of Personal destruction go way back.
Google Sen Bob Packwood sometime.
Or the way that Tip O'Neal talked about Reagan when Reagan wasn't in the room.
What changed was that conservatives started fighting BACK.
And yes. That is all part of the RIse of Trump and the GOP flipping on Free Trade and Immigration.
You all sound alike and you all fall back on the playgroundish "well yeah but they started it" crap. The fact of the matter is that we can no longer self govern, and until the zealots on "both" sides realize they are being played by the power structure, it will remain so.
A firm grasp of how the situation has developed is part of understanding what is actually going on.
You show up and see to people fighting, you might assume it is a Duel, and avoid getting involved.
On the other hand if someone then tells you that the one guy just attacked the other guy for no reason, screaming that he was going to eat him, you suddenly realize that the situation is not what you thought.
And adjust your behavior accordingly.
I know how the situation developed and that was taken into consideration, but thanks for the concern. "The people" no longer self govern and "neither" party did anything to prevent the take over. Not "conservatives", not "liberals", no one.
1. Your dismissal of caring about how the situation developed, does not lend much credibility to your new claim to know how the situation developed.
2. Your pet peeve about "self governing" is yours. I have certainly been annoyed at the failure of our political class to represent the People's interests and agenda. Hopefully the Populist Revolt of Trump will begin to reverse that.
Wonderful, but Trump is not coming to save you, no one is. Vote, go home to await again, and watch. "Liberals", "conservatives", they all behave the same once in because they answer to the same power structure. Which by the way benefits from all you twits flinging feces at each other.
The reaction from BOTH SIDES of the Political CLass argues that Trump represents a real challenge to the Status Quo.