The left in the US would be center-right in Europe, who are certainly not communist (they have separate parties that are communists!)
Even the socialist strain of the US has nothing to do with socialism scaremongering about Venezuela, etc.
The "left" as in the pervasive group that crawled out of Tumblr, took hold of Twitter back in the day, and has a stronghold on Reddit now? Those do care about what you can say, think, watch and read, and the more they can control, the better. The US right can only dream to have half as much control as the left has had in the last three decades.
ideally we should be throwing our support behind democratic socialists like zorhan mamdani but old school moderate democrats are just as bad as trump. they are juts happy letting trump do the dirty work. At the end of the day they are both working for a certain foreign government and not the interests of the american people.
no, you completely missed my point. why would i talk about communism if in the same comment i'm saying that the left/right divide is a fake distraction... a red herring?
what i said is that what matters is the authoritarianism/freedom scale.
i just mentioned my past to emphasize that ideologies like communism are not to be identified by announcing themselves as 'communism'... but by recognizing their actual shape and actions. and i have a little first hand experience in that.
What's "scaremongering" to you is "life" to GP. Besides missing their point, you're also saying "you held socialism wrong, we can make it work, if only if it weren't for this pesky ... reality"... Sorry, you missed their comment, and I can't take yours seriously :)