First of all, is there still a Communist Party in the USA – a credible one, that is? Someone should notice that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, that Eastern Europe was post-Communist about then, and that even “Communist” China has embraced a lot of free-market policies. Is someone trapped in a time-warp in the wrong century? Or do some people just have over-active imaginations?
Assuming that there is a serious CPUSA, has anybody come up with the logical idea – that the CPUSA is copying the platform of the Democratic Party – a legitimate political party – in order to gain credibility?
As CharlieHall points out, the Democratic platform is simple logic aimed at keeping the US from turning into an economic and societal cripple. The Communist Party is using this copycat tactic the way it did in Europe in previous generations. Read some old books on communist propaganda – this me-too ploy was a favorite.
And if you think Obama is a socialist – go read a book and find out what socialism is really about. No way to make that stretch. I lived on kibbutz in the old days – now there was socialism 🙂