You're the one who's trotting out skulls and baby killers and extrapolating this Rolling Stone idiot straight to them. That's pretty dramatic, even for you. Because that is what you're saying, that any leftist ideas inevitably lead to leftist dictatorships, therefore no leftist ideas must be countenanced. You've been singing that one-note samba for as long as I've known you.

When we've had this argument before and I've pointed out that non-reds, from Hitler to Attila the Hun, murdered innocents too, you countered with the preposterous notion that Adolf was actually a Communist, or you started specifying the Bolshevik body count was bigger, therefore it had to be badder.

Its elementary logic, TB. Leftists can be bastards, but being leftist doesn't make you a bastard. And not being a leftist doesn't make you a saint either. It is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition. There isn't even a correlation. If there were, all of Scandinavia and most of Western Europe would be a tyrannical hell-hole, and Haiti would be a tropical paradise.

No TB, your propaganda rhetoric relies on your assertion that any leftist idea, or should I say, any idea YOU consider leftist, must be squashed lest it put us on the slippery slope to the gulag. And the obvious corollary to THAT is that any rightist idea, no matter how evil, is preferable to any leftist concept, because of the mountain of skulls and the massacre of babes it must inevitably lead to.

This has the further advantage of making anyone who calls you on it an obvious leftist too. How convenient. Just like Joe McCarthy.
Face it, Tom, being a leftist is not illegal, and its not immoral. It not even unpopular.

Wake up, comrade. There are no more Communists. China, and the old USSR are Gilded Age Capitalists now, just like you like em, and the only legit communist states in the world now are Cuba, Viet Nam and N. Korea. None of which has a fan base from the Libs on this board, or much chance of taking over the world, even with help from the Scandinavians..

You are cherry picking horrendous but isolated historical incidents and using them as supposed evidence of how domestic political issues you have strong feelings about must be managed. Hence the Obamacare reference. Tom, you're much more motivated by taxes than by tyranny, and its not 1955 any more. Pointing the finger and saying "leftist" doesn't work any more. We're not going away.

Besides, haven't you gotten the memo? The new villain is IslamoFascism. Now those guys are really bad news, with a genuine recent body count, but at least they are staunchly anti-communist.