JFK sent troops to Vietnam to fight communists and they still called him one, anyway

[Dennis Donovan]

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Oliver Willis ✔@owillis

jfk literally sent troops to vietnam to fight communists. and the right called him... a communist. this is what they do.



8:28 AM - Feb 25, 2020

[BlueMTexpat]

1. It's mostly because of the Bay of Pigs

fiasco. https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

Quite of few in the CIA hated him after that.

[WhereAmerica]

2. Seriously, Oliver?

You do know that Sanders actually is a socialist and calls himself one, right?

So, there's a world of difference between being smeared as a socialist/communist when you're not one, and being called a socialist when you are one.

And the vast majority of Americans -- not being grad students in political theory -- don't have a clue about the differences between democratic socialism and communism.

In part, that's because the Soviet Union and other communists called themselves socialists. Plus it doesn't matter. Socialists, in the popular mind, want the government to own everything.

And the vast majority of Americans have said in polls that they don't want socialism. Period.

So, please open the door to reality and take a breath.

Sanders will mean the end of the Democratic Party, and of this country's experiment with democracy and the law.

[brooklynite]

3. When did Kennedy (or FDR or Truman or Clinton or Obama) agree?

[octoberlib]

4. Bernie said that JFK made him nauseous.