i think it depends upon who is doing the defining. The radical right says anything to their left start at socialist and quickly degrade into communist and marxists...of course, they don't know what any of those terms mean, but that is how they define it.
Middle of the road folks think that mtg, bobo, gatez, biggs et al, are too far to the right, and those same folks are probably a little put off by Bernie and Ilhan Omar, albeit for different reasons, but mainly because they approach socialism.
While the closest thing you get to a radical left in this country is Bernie and Omar and Jayapal, who aren't even socialist, the far right would call them socialist at least...again, with no real idea of the terms actual definition.
Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Communism: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
just to avoid confusion...
Thanks for the clarification but dehumanizing is the way to view your adversaries as not worthy of equality
And it has become the path the right is willing to go so they can target people and not view them as being worthy of the title fellow Americans
For me that is the scary part the January sixth episode showed they are willing to do what it takes to stop anything they don’t like
And the internet warriors believe they know how to identify us
They have been indoctrinated and either refuse to believe it or revel in it
I have never once thought I would ever have to bear arms against friends , family or neighbors but that moment is close
They biggest misnomer is that they have the weapons and ammunition
I am approached regularly by people who believe that anyone who looks like me is a fellow Trumper
That may just destroy America and the right feels they will win
When the reality is the country will lose
Even winning on the one single issue they have wanted for fifty years isn’t enough
For these people they believe playing all alpha will win the day
I know enough bad asses that will not let that happen but at that point our country will be irreparable
Even if you present a rational argument they resort to Whataboutism
Which is still just never give in
I have no idea how to stop them from going down the road they think they want to go down
And like abortion they have no clue what to do once the dog catches the car
We are in an unbelievably bad place when people will lay down their lives just to be self righteous
I truly wish I was wrong but flat earth believers will not even take yes for an answer
Pray I guess cause brainwashing is permanent