she is obviously very smart, so smart in fact that she realizes her best strategy is to keep her mouth shut and fool people into thinking she is normal- when in fact she is normal
for a communist.
It really speaks to the level of neediness we've sunk that people take her socialist beliefs and don't recognize them as such. Such sentiments are so popular that most Republicans are afraid to speak against them, and offer Socialist Lite alternatives.
It frightens me when I talk to my students and they seem to think government's job is to give them stuff.