Thank you, but (1) I don't think I'm "lefty", you seem to be over-extrapolating too much from me not supporting a grifter who happens to be a Republican; and (2) none of what you're complaining about is communism.

Communism the way it was explained to me by the people who literally tried to implement it on my sorry ass means "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs" (I think it's a quote from the "Critique of the Gotha Programme" Twitchy referred to above). Basically doing away with money and private property, making everyone work as much as they can (presumably some form of slave/forced labor because there is no other incentive to work), and giving everyone just enough food etc for basic needs. Ironically some entrepreneurs seem to have come closer to implementing this sort of communism - e.g. "company towns", or modern tech startups - than Stalin et al, whose attempts inevitably devolved into corrupt dysfunctional shitholes.

Throwing "communism" around like this defeats whatever point you might be trying to make. Any sane person looks at this and looks at North Korea and knows this is a bullshit argument.