The amount of ridiculous attempts to try and pin this on someone else is **staggering**.

@Maw is it "name-calling" to call the DNC socialist when Bernie Sanders actively campaigns with "Democratic Socialist Party" banners? Or is it just using the name they are using themselves? If socialism was espoused and defined by Karl Marx is it incorrect to call them Marxist? They are using the socialist banner. If an egg looks like an egg, acts like an egg, says it is an egg, don't you call it an egg? I, in no way, condone what went on in the capitol or any of the violence and destruction in the BLM "protests". I believe there are valid points of contention around the election that the courts refused to address and the electoral agents failed miserably to dispel. I believe that there is merit in an America first policy that looks after its citizens before it looks after the rest of the world. I believe we have enough problems at home without tieing ourselves to foreign agreements that tie our hands in response to bad actors or in how we deal with "global warming". I believe that in most cases, less government, most especially federal government, is better. I do not believe that the president should enter into agreements with foreign nations without the advice and consent of the Senate. I do not believe a simple majority of any party should be sufficient to remove or impeach a president or to enter into a foreign agreement. I do not believe the president or the CDC or WHO or any other federal or international agency, especially one that is not elected, should be able to pass decrees that are legally enforcable. If the DNC said it wants to make DC and Puerto Rico for the sole purpose of solidifying their power and control in the house and senate, that should scare everyone.

Yes. To call the entire DNC socialists, communists, and marxists is 100% name-calling and partisan rhetoric.

Who among the DNC is denouncing the "socialist rehtoric"?

rhetoric

Why must they denounce it? Should we go around asking all republicans to denounce fascism, to denounce extreme nationalism?

They did it to the president countless times

Cool, that's them.

Why did he have to denounce it

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Good question.

Not relevant to my point though.

What is "extreme nationalism"? Is loving the constitution and the rights it bestows on us "extreme"?

Extreme nationalism is the idea that there is one group of superior people in the world and that everyone else is inferior.

It's extremely isolationist usually.

I see that you are asking those of us that are for preserving the constitution and for smaller federal government not to paint the other side with a broad brush, but when they all tow the same line it is hard not too.

@gjblajian, you just advanced to level 2!

There aren’t a Fascist Republicans though. There is in fact socialist Democrats. De Blasio daughter is a Marxist. Mayor lightfoot of Chicago is a socialist Marxist pretty much. The only fascism in this country are from the left.

The fascist of the future will call themselves anti fascist. Using that term is a projection to create a boogey man

It can also be extremely imperialist.

This slaps so hard https://youtu.be/o8hYrNsRoTs

My favorite banger of the year lolll

Don't care. You wouldn't use the excuse of 'he started it first' with your mother, why are you using it with me?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If you are going to complain about the divisive rhetoric, don't engage in it yourself.

Cool. Yes, I'm aware of what Reagan said.

@Maw Well, that is confusing. Your answer to divisive rhetoric is not to point it out? So silence?

To not engage in it yourself, I think is what I actually said.

Churchill

Context is important no matter what the argument is.

Presumed you were talking about one of the more popular of the two to the American right, but yes, you're correct.

I don’t really know if he even created the phrase. I’m pretty sure he just retained ownership due to his popularity.

I don't recall using any names I simply pointed out that they do. I did point out that a majority of the "media-worthy" democrats espouse socialist ideals, but I guess it is not acceptable to call an egg an egg.

Social ideals != Socialist. Not how that works.

And it sure as hell doesn't make them communists.

I never used the term communist

please stop trying to put words in my mouth

Communism is to socialists what heaven is to Christians

I never used the term fascist. We're not talking about you and me though.

Pff.

Essentially.

Tell that to Hitler.