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In all of my debates with those types they always see shadowy conspiracies preventing Americans from having real actual communism....whereas I see that nobody in this country -- especially in this country -- would vote for a communist.
The US spent 60 years actively treating Communists as enemies of the state and propagandizing against them. There's no need to talk about shadows and conspiracies. The capitalist and political elite were very open about it.
There's multiple elements to why people won't vote for a communist, but they still won't.
Certainly state actions play a role, and communists were victims of free speech violations in a much realer sense than victims of "cancel culture" ever were.