re: Would you like it if...
Fine, fine. They're all "progressives" now. There aren't any communists in America. There never WERE any communists in America. McCarthy made it all up. In fact, there weren't any communists anywhere in the world. It was all a plot of the military-industrial complex.
Hell, if you listen to people around here, there isn't even any such thing as "the Left."
I don't have the energy to fisk that whole list. You can read the biographies as well as I can.