May I ask you where you live?
Because I lived in a communist country for enough time to realize USA is not going communist.
1. I live in the USA
2. Living in a communist country doesn't make you qualified to comment on whether a country is transitioning towards communism. It only qualifies you to explain what it is like to live under a communist regime after the transition is over. Unless you wish to revise it into you having lived THROUGH such a transition.
3. The hell it isn't
Do yourself a favor.
Fly to one of the ex soviet countries , but not Russia. Try to live for two months in Belarus or Turkmenistan.
It's better to lose a month of your life understanding something rather than living a whole life in a lie.
You people in the USA have no fucking idea how communism was and is.
I lived enough in both communism and capitalist regimes to tell USA has nothing to do with communism and is by no means getting closer to it.
As a Canadian who knows Americans, has had family live in and go to school in Russia under 'communism' (really authoritarian central planning where the coordinator class rules all) I can say that neither Americans nor ex-soviet block citizens know a damn thing about communism... But especially not Americans. Calling Obama socialist is SOOO rediculous. I do agree however that coordinator class authoritarianism is a basic condition that both system had alot of. In the US there are more advanced methods of control that allow for a lot more feeling of freedom.
There is one thing I'd like to point out...
Obama has admitted to being Socialist in college. His mother was not just a socialist but a very politically motivated and outspoken socialist. His father was socialist, his mentor was socialist...
He has direct and immediate ties to the strongest Socialist and Communist groups active in the United States...
We aren't just calling him names. This is one of those "it is what is is" situations. The writing is on the wall...
Check the facts and verify before defending him blindly.