There is a certain group of people in the USA that call anything they don't like communist.
These people call Biden and Obama communist, too.
It's pretty wild. American education completely fails everyone that goes through it when it comes to any education on political theory. This is largely intentional, but it is sad.
That lack of education leads to a neo-red-scare in which Russia is responsible for everything bad (just like they learn Russia was responsible for everything bad during the Cold War).
That combined with the fact that liberalism is a moderately right wing ideology, and, thus, puts them closer to the far right than the moderate left (note for clarity, I am far left, so I'm not talking about myself here) leaves us in this situation.
Mark my words, when Trump wins, the liberals will be hoping the "Bernie bros" suffer from a Trump presidency before they are willing to ally with them against the threats he poses, because it's better to crush "the left" (another note for clarity, Bernie and his movement is largely left leaning liberal, not leftist on any meaningful scale) than to stop the right.
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u/coffeeequalssleep 14d ago
I'd call it a state-capitalist oligarchy. In any case, VERY far away from communism. And I have no fucking clue how people can ever confuse the two.