The ironic thing is if the government ever went Stalinist, it would probably go after DU types *first*. This is because fools like Ayers and Van Jones want real power to control and dominate others, and the fanatical leftists who would be in power would not want to share it with them.
And like the Soviet trials, where Mensheviks and other such “liberal” communists were tried in kangaroo courts and executed (that *that*, “McCarthyism” whiners), they all dutifully confessed to their failure as communists, likely without torture, that they had failed the party agenda, and asked to be punished.
People who post to DU really need to talk to those who lived in such conditions as North Korea, Red Khmer Cambodia, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia (1968), Poland, East Germany, etc. They would soon discover that what they think are the means to get them what they want, has very, very different ends than what they want.
Yes. The Russians called those people “useful idiots”. They pushed the cause then after the cause was achieved they were eliminated, deemed threats.
No probably to it. History is our guide. Look at Venezuela as a recent example.