Randall Hoven - "Making the World Safe for Marxism"

"It is almost commonplace to accuse someone of being like Hitler or acting Nazi-like. (Googling 'bush hitler' yields 1,300,000 hits, for example.) Yet you are considered beyond the pale, and possibly insane, to even suggest that someone might harbor Marxist sympathies. To question someone's dedication to traditional American or merely Western ideals = calling him communist = being Joe McCarthy = we now know you're nuts...

We are now at the point where any utterance at all that merely questions whether a politician leans Marxist is immediate grounds for dismissal, derision and even banishment from the Republican Party and the public conversation. It is 'McCarthyism' in reverse, or more properly, real McCarthyism as it actually happened, meaning the accuser is the one who suffers, not the accused.

But what if they are Marxist?

Excuse me, but isn't the great lesson we were supposed to learn from Nazism to recognize such evil before it reaches critical mass - to quash such movements before things get violent? As a reminder, the Holocaust count was 11 million; communism killed 100 million.

If we do not allow ourselves to call something 'wrong' or 'evil', we yield the battle without even a fight. Yet to refrain from such 'invective' is what is now called 'civil discourse' and the right 'tone.'"