Is the Democratic Party known as "America's Commumist Party" by all non-Democrats?

Question

I just moved to the US a few weeks ago from the UK. I live in a very wealthy housing community, so there are naturally many fiscal conservatives living here.

Anywho, I have had 8 or 9 people tell me that the democratic party in the US is known by most as "America's Community Party". Is this so? I mean I can see how people would see the similarities, but I have never heard anyone others then a conservative call the democrats "America's Community Party".

Answer 1

I moved to US from communist country about 15 years ago. I am not conservative, but.

Democrats here are not Communists, but I could see a lot similarity with socialists and in some very left cases communists.

As I already had experienced democratic dictate on my skin I am not keen to see that again. So local liberals is not my club, sorry.

Answer 2

Only by the idiots.

Answer 3

The Democrat's plan — "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

A Rasmussen Poll released Tuesday showed that 37% of Democrats think nationalizing the oil companies is a good idea. Only 32% disagreed with that. The Congress' majoriy has been taken over by a U.S. House of Socialists.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

~Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

Answer 4

Yes, the communist party in the U.S. is called the Democratic Party, except in Minnesota, where it is called the Democratic Farmer Labor party.  But it's the gold old communist party so loved in other less developed parts of the world.

Answer 5

They are so close in their thinking they might as well be.

They have come a long way since JFK

Answer 6

No, not all of them...

For those of us who have spent time in the military, believe in our military, and support the men and women of our military, read on.

John Glenn (DEMOCRAT) said this - it should make you think a little:

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January 07. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq. When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following:

FDR (DEMOCRAT) led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us, Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost. . . an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman (DEMOCRAT) finished that war and started one in Korea. North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost - an average of 18,334 per year.

John F. Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.

Johnson (DEMOCRAT) turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost. . . an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton (DEMOCRAT) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya , Iran, and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. And the Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.

But Wait, there's more.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno (DEMOCRAT) to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton (DEMOCRAT) to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high! The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.

But Wait. There's more!

Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living. This is a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military.

JOHN GLENN (on the Senate floor - January 26, 2004)

Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn): 'How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?'

Senator Glenn (D-Ohio): 'I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me. . . as I went the other day. . . to a veteran's hospital and look those men. . . with their mangled bodies, in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job! You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee. . . and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DAD'S didn't hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you have the gall to tell ME that those people didn't have a job?'

What about Metzenbaum? For those who don't remember, during W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA. . . now he's a Senator!

Answer 7

"Ask not what you can do for yourself, but what the government can do for you"

A Democratic quote

McCain 08(we are all workers here)

Answer 8

I've heard it said in jest, and certainly can understand the similarities, but I don't really think many people outside of the hard right really believe that all democratic party members are communists.

There ARE a lot of ties to communism/socialism within the democratic party, however. If you look on Barack's site you can find a lot of whackjobs commies/troofers. It's really a sight.

Edit: It's the same level of attack that people sometimes throw at the Republican party as being "Big Business Rich White Guys keeping the little man down!" Some people in the Republican party are indeed white, and some are rich, and some have big businesses. That doesn't make the entirety of the party such, though.