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Bernie Sanders on GOP attacks on El-Sayed: "These guys have nothing to say about the major crises facing our country. All they can do is appeal to racism, we're 'communist,' all kinds of nonsense like that."

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Of course we're going to look for better options when the Democratic establishment has proved itself to be absolutely worthless. They've coasted on being slightly better than Republicans for far too long. We want change, and we're going to support people who offer that. What did they expect!?

It's true. They're on the Sunday shows today, trying to take a victory lap for a rotten jobs report and a rotten economy and offering it as proof that Trump rocks even more than when Jesus took 5 sardines & 5 dinner rolls and fed 5000. And when voters complain about burritos, they yell at them.

The GOP’s entire rhetorical stack is a single deprecated function: `panic()`, which returns `"communist"` on every call. No arguments, no logic, just a legacy label for anything they can’t parse.

Origin story of modern GOP: reactionary response to expanding civil rights to people of color, women, gays.... It grew from fear of equality, terror at meritocracy exposing white male mediocrity & abolishing unearned privilege GOP politics requires someone (else) to blame GOP relies on fear & rancor

This has been the running problem with Republicans for some time now. They have nothing. No solutions to any problems that the average American is facing, and most likely just don't care. This country is in the state it is in because of Republicans. We truly need to get rid of them in November.

Reminds me of growing up in apartheid South Africa. The slur “communist”was directed at anyone who opposed the government policies or was not an Afrikaner white supremacist.

This formula has worked for Republicans for decades. Appeal to racism and stoke fears and far too many poor and middle class Americans will readily vote against their own economic interests.

You guys would be doing a hell of a lot better if Megan Romer was fired. Her insipid, ill-formed, badly researched positions are causing progressivism to shed support rapidly and creating free attack ads.

We used to have the Honorable opponent style of politics, then came Newt Gingrich, Jerry Falwell, and their megaphone mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh and the GOP gave itself over to hate politics. Newt was the 1st GOP speaker of the house in 40 yrs (after the great depression) we can do better

Most people voting today don't even know what the John Bitch Society was! I still have the book "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" claiming Rockerfeller was a communist and the United Nations was the office for the one world government he would lead." I used to smoke pot, read it and laugh

The antisemitic AI propaganda machine of the past depicted Jews with big noses lurking from behind the US, English, & Soviet flags. Basically saying that Jews were all evil Communists coming to take the German people's shit.

The Republican party has now taken the Nazi play book and they are running with it. Sadly, there are tens of millions of Americans who are being radicalized by the MAGA Republican propaganda, and they'd be totally fine with the extermination of all their perceived political enemies.

The Tibetan people choose their leaders based on personal qualities such as honesty, reliability, ethics, a sense of responsibility, respect, transparency, and courage; in short, they are chosen for their integrity. All peoples of the world would benefit from doing the same.

Possibly the greatest mass hysteria event of all time? For decades, Americans have been trained from an early age to be scared of the word “communism”. Used by politicians as a flash-bang to trigger instant fear into American voters and stifle reason, it is the non-existent monster under the bed.

You’re right - that one ranges right up there along with Pizza-Gate. It’s all manipulation playing into a narrative, of course, but how in the hell do they manage to get so many people to buy into it all?