Obama is a Communist? Please debunk...

[Darth Rotor]

Along with the words "peace", "democracy", and "economic justice." Are these also communist "code words"?

Yes, sometimes they are, and the last is absolutely a nebulous platitude used by rhetoriticians far and wide, not merely communists. (See the Catholic Church for an egregious example.) Peace can be called a lot of things, or merely the absence of war. (OK, what is your definition of war, in that case?) Democracy is a loosely used term, which has been on these boards nitpicked over considerably, but generally includes the voice and vote of the citizenry as an element of the political process. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't. The DDR wasn't. Only one party? Not a democracy, yet the communists called it such.

Not everyone who believes in social justice is a communist.

Indeed, but that term is a flag to me that someone is about to begin with a half truth for a political motive. Call me cynical.

Sorry. What's the alternative? Social injustice?

I note your leading to a utopian framework. Not well played.

True or false:
I believe in social justice.
I support social injustice.
I support politicians working for social justice.

What does belief have to do with this? Are we discussing some secular religion? (Man, this is fun.)

Old hands will note that a pollster who uses loaded terms and false dilemmas ought to be treated by both cynics and skeptics with caution.

DR