Being alive today, one would think that communism was on its way to becoming a legitimate ruling force in American politics. But this has never been the case. Communism has never had any wide appeal in America. The “threat” of communism is nothing more than a talking point used by political pundits, mostly on the right, but also on the left whenever it is convenient, to scare the working classes into docility and indifference. It is the most successful talking point in the modern era of American politics. This very old talking point (the first fears of communism did not happen in the 1950s, but right after the October revolution in 1917) has been so effective that everything from child tax credits, to the largely Christian black civil rights movement, to atheist celebrities, to hippie communes, to science fiction novelists, to free food programs have at one point or another been completely demonized as a secret communist plot to subvert the Constitution. Make no mistake, I blame the effectiveness of this vile talking point not on the spineless corporate politicians that make use of it, but on the painfully lazy American populous that chooses to turn to corporate owned media networks to get information about world events. Anyone who wishes to know about current events may easily do so by reading real political journals, but instead America chooses to say informed by hearing the thoughtless opinions of elite businessmen and corrupt politicians. Any political analyst worth their salt will readily tell you that the very idea that a communist revolution is coming to subvert the wealth of Elon Musk and Kayne West is just as ridiculous as saying that Big Bird is trying to brainwash your child into getting vaccinated. Providing access to information is not the same thing as manipulation or "brainwashing". Simply because a university teaches communism, that does not mean that the university itself is communist. There are no communist universities in the United States of America; that is simply not allowed here. But even if such a university did exist, it would not last very long. Communist rhetoric remains extremely unpopular in America because the mechanisms for a successful communist revolution simply do not exist in America. There are plenty of reasons for this. The first reason is that most students who attend university are simply the children of the elite classes. Life has been good to these elites; they have no need of communism. Am I supposed to believe that the likes of Paris Hilton and Willow Smith are currently organizing a communist uprising to steal their own wealth form their own parents? The second reason is that studies show that people who attend university for four years become more conservative, not more liberal, by the end of their college experience because they are exposed to the gospel of capitalism all day long for four straight years. But the final reason really puts the whole thing in perspective. Wherever there has been a violent communist uprising, that uprising has always followed the same trajectory. There must be a powerful and technologically advanced colonial force occupying or threatening the country and an oppressed, mostly uneducated and starving, working class. Before the revolution in Russia, Germany invaded Russia during WWI. Before communism took hold in Vietnam, France had exploited Vietnamese resources for years. Before China became a communist nation, it had been constantly attacked by both Japan and the western powers. Who is occupying America? No one. Where is the mostly uneducated and starving peasant class in America? Nowhere. How many communist are there in America? As I write this post, the American communist parties have fewer than 100,000 members and have almost no influence over American political debate and none whatsoever when it comes to policy. An interesting side note: they had even fewer members before Donald Trump became president and began cutting welfare programs.