• dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Before accepting any callers, the show host asks the CPUSA Co-Chair if CPUSA endorses any candidate for president. He says that the CPUSA has never endorsed candidates from other political parties for president. So CPUSA is not endorsing Biden.

    The first caller identifies politically as an independent. She starts by saying that she’s never heard of the Communist Party of USA and she’s afraid of communism. She asks why the communists want to take away her guns and then she says that we need to build a dome over America to protect America from climate change caused by China.

    CPUSA Co-chair responds by saying that CPUSA doesn’t want to take away your guns. He says that the US should stop shipping guns all around the world. He says that gang-related gun violence is related to the drug crisis which needs to be addressed. Then he says CPUSA is not a party of big government, that it is a party of helping working class people. He says “we don’t need filthy rich people telling us how the country should be run”. He says that corporations control the US media. He says that China wants a clean environment for their children.

    The second caller identifies as a Republican. She says that her father was a dentist in Chicago and that she believes that communism would have prevent her father from inventing the “gold inlay” by imposing regulations on him.

    CPUSA Co-chair responds by saying that the narrative that communists want to stifle innovation is a lie. Then he turns it around and says that McCarthyism restricted the rights of communist Americans. He says that if we look at history, it is the Americans who oppressed Communists and not that Communists have oppressed Americans.

    The third caller identifies as an independent. He asks how CPUSA is funded. He implies that CPUSA is funded by the “Communist party of Russia”.

    CPUSA Co-chair responds by saying that CPUSA doesn’t receive funding by foreign government or foreign corporation unlike other candidates of other American political parties. I think he may be referencing AIPAC. He says that CPUSA is funded by donations from working class people.