[cynicalheretic]

With everything that is going on with Russia and China, how long until we have another McCarthy screaming about the pinko's?

[Denny]

If more of a liberal influence starts to sweeop the U.S. then the next thing is that real COmmunists wil start to beomce influential. They are right off the map now at the extreme left. Not even U.S. trade unions hold communist views of a central planned economy, etc. But, many hold to views espousing such things as socialized child care for working parents.

Therafter, the sweep up may start anew, as Americans see the crumbling set in of their dearly held principles.

Similar to the the end of WWI it was just after the Democratic party being in power that the Communists had gained some influence.

[Plantagenet]

IMHO, the fascists and communists and similar totalitarians murdered so many people in the 20th century that totalitarianism is pretty well discredited now.

[pea-jay]

I'd have to argue that both Russia and CHina have ditched pretty much all of the "communist" economic system for a mix private sector economic system with a state level control over the resources themselves. Traditional socialistic "sharing" has fallen off.

On the other, political control has tightened, not loosened.

I do think there will be competition between the US and China and the US and Russia, but it will not be over ideology. Resource control and economic control will be far more important. Given china's huge population, there is a better chance both the US and China will compete for Russia's remaining resources.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pea-jay', '
')I do think there will be competition between the US and China and the US and Russia, but it will not be over ideology. Resource control and economic control will be far more important. Given china's huge population, there is a better chance both the US and China will compete for Russia's remaining resources.

[NEOPO]

"we dont live in a fascist nation!"

[pea-jay]

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Don't count Russia out in the control sweepstakes. They likely have some of the most concentrated wealth in the world right now, a capital pool that is ready to buy what it wants and where it wants.

[Newsseeker]

I doubt many Americans will take the idea of Chinese and Russian sleeper cells seriously but I overestimate their intelligence and will probably come to regret this remark.