Sadly, it is considered impolite and even ignorant to call Hillary and the Democrats, communists, but, sadly, if not tragically, it makes good sense. You might say too, if you like to split hairs a little, that she is a socialist since she is openly supporting what is commonly referred to as socialized medicine. Neither she nor the MSN (main stream media) will dispute the label, or explain why, if the arguments apply to medicine, they don't apply equally to socializing the entire economy. In fact, it's not mentioned at all for one simple reason: the Democrats and the MSM have done an excellent job of undermining the basic American value of freedom, from gov't.
Also, then, what can't be mentioned is that Marx conceived of socialism as a prelude to communism. Marx did not conceive of socialism in isolation, but rather as a state evolving or maturing into Communism, and Hillary can not conceive of one tax and spend gov't program not growing into the next one with no end or goal in sight, short of Marxism, though it has to be unstated in America, the land of the free. Even if Hillary were not technically an ideological communist, her political party and the electoral demands derived thereof would inevitably draw her in that direction. It seems failed tax and spend programs, in the Democratic nether world anyway, apparently create the need for more, rather than less, tax and spend programs with no end ever in sight. This has gone on through 200 years of winning elections and dreaming up a constant stream of new programs, and presumably will go on until a Democratic gov't controls absolutely everything, which would be, coincidentally, a lot like, surprise, communism.
Western Civilization, from ancient Greek democracy on, was about the growth of freedom or liberty from gov't. American Republicans represented the culmination of that process which began in ancient Greece, inched forward to the divine right of kings as redefined in the Magna Carta Libertatum, and was culminated by the Jeffersonian Republicans in the second American revolution of 1800. From 1800, all the way forward to the Great Depression the trend continued toward freedom continued, at which point FDR, who ran as a conservative, adopted Marxists solutions out of desperation and ignorance that, to be fair, was shared by some Republicans of that era.
FDR's friends went to Stalinist Russia and came back to pronounce: "I have seen the future and it works" and they have gone down in Democratic history as heroes despite extending Great Depression for 10 years (leading to world war) with insane communist-like programs. FDR called Stalin(communist killer of 40 million ) Uncle Joe, and said ,"I wish I had his powers". Democrats spied for Communists; some gave nuclear secrets to them, and were condignly hung. Communists in America vote
