The Boy Who Cried "Communist!"
Communism is only a joke to those who haven't experienced it
Communism has become a joke in America
Credibly accusing someone of being a communist is more likely to make you look foolish than make him look suspicious
Communism is real and its track record is abominable
Communism is considered a success by those who benefit from it
The primary complication with pointing out that Barack Obama is a communist is not that it is untrue (for he has given us every reason to believe that it is), but that the average person living in the West today has no understanding of what this means.
For many Americans the term "communist" has but one context -- McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s. It evokes tales (both true and imaginary) of Hollywood blacklisting, baseless allegations, and political witch hunts -- events born of a national fear now considered little more than the widespread superstition of less enlightened times. It has become so inextricably bound to notions of irrationality and contrivance that to refer to someone as a communist in today's culture is, in effect, to call him the Bogeyman.
This cartoonish understanding persists because most people know very little about the history of communist governments -- the cultural and economic destitution, social repression, theft, terror, and mass murder typical under such regimes -- and even less about their philosophical underpinnings, which, when applied, lead inevitably to these ends.
From a societal standpoint, the term "communist" is an easily dismissed joke; one that brings no degree of scrutiny to the accused, but instead immediately undermines the credibility of the accuser. It is to one's own peril that he levels such a charge, no matter the volume of evidence. No one, it is believed, can be a communist because such a thing does not exist, and anyone claiming otherwise is either foolish or unstable.
The great and obvious danger of such naive denial is that this intellectual and moral abomination is permitted to metastasize from its usual habitations of dorm rooms and cocktail parties into the vital sectors of our society. And while many on the Left have made careers out of tilting at such windmills as "global warming" and "white privilege," they mockingly dismiss the very real and deadly pestilence of communism as if its atrocities had either never taken place or its track record had proven it to be successful.
From the perspective of those it benefitted, however, communism was a success. That such men constituted an incredibly small percentage of the population, and that their success was purchased with innocent blood were matters considered beside the point, if they were considered at all.
Today's social engineers like Barack Obama will readily assume the high moral ground in condemnation of unpopular sadists like Josef Mengele. Yet these very same engineers use entire nations as their personal laboratory -- experimenting with the lives of men as they would caged animals, designating them for sacrifice on the Socialist altar of "science" or "progress" or whatever other trending term gives license to their inhumanity.