Hillary is no more a "communist " than Pope Francis is a Buddhist . The problem with right-wingers is that they foolishly equate liberalism in politicians with being communist, even though liberalism is the exact opposite of communism .
Liberals are not communists and communists are not liberals . Communism is a totalitarian form of government and economy where there is no private enterprise , no stock market, and the government controls the entire economy rigidly . There is not a single liberal Democrat in congress who advocates this, even senator Bernie Sanders, who is a SOCIAL DEMOCRAT , not a Marxist or communist .
President Obama is no communist either. Under him, the stock market on Wall Street is coming as never before . There is nothing even remotely communist about his regimes social or economic policies .
But many right-wingers in America advocate a kind of right-wing extremist totalitarian fascist government which is no better than communism, just tyrannical in different ways . And a form of government who is essentially theocratic .
This features a pure laissez-faire economy where there is no social safety net for people who are either born poor or who have fallen on hard times , and where if you lose your job, you can starve on the street for all the government cares . But if you are rich, you can get the best medical care in the world because you can easily afford it, where you can send your kids to get a college education or beyond because you can afford it , etc .
Separation of church and state is lacking , and politicians who are Christian can easily pass laws interfering with the private lives of others and violate their rights , abortion is illegal yet rampant, and poor women die every day from botched illegal abortions , or bring more and more poor , malnourished, poorly housed children into the world who lack decent medical care and education .
Gay people are not only not allowed to marry , but can lose their jobs if found out and can go to prison for long sentences even if they have never harmed anyone.
Kids are forced to participate in Christian prayer and sit through Bible readings even if they are not Christian and can be punished severely if they refuse to do these things .
The government can censor and ban any movie, TV show , book, magazine or whatever if those in charge find it sexually offensive or disrespectful to Christianity or "anti-christian ."
If the Republican party got its way, this is basically what America would become . No better than communism, just tyrannical in different ways .
Hillary Clinton does not advocate either of these two kinds of government , and neither do the other liberal Democrats .
