Here are the four stages:
1. Demoralization: Destroy religion; encourage decadence and consumerism; remove responsibility from the community and give it to bureaucrats; give undue power to unelected individuals (journalists, media figures, etc.); demonize law enforcement, praise criminals; exploit trade unions to promote ideology of "equality" that can never be achieved.
Thoughts?
1. There is little to no communism in the US so there is that.
2. Religion is being destroyed by at least the following 2 things IMO
a. religion itself, religion has been so unwilling to acknowledge the changing of the times and tides that it has become too extreme and too rigid for a lot of people to want to be part of. That has nothing to do with communism but with religion itself
b. hyper individualism as preached by libertarians and a lot of the right has created ultimately selfish people who do not feel at home in religions because they are under the impression that they alone are worthy of salvation/rights.
3. how on earth is communism to blame for decadence and consumerism? In fact communism despises those things (another reason why communism can never work). The things you name are to be blamed on hyper capitalism, not communist.
4. what responsibility by the community is meant here? Bureaucracy is a very subjective definition because what some feel is bureaucracy others in the community see as a vital function of the government. All societies and governments are "plagued" by bureaucrats in general. It again has nothing to do with communism.
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give undue power to unelected individuals (journalists, media figures, etc.)
You do know that a free press is one of the things that does not exist in communism? And how is power given to it? It gets the power people put into it. So far none of the things you have presented have anything to do with "communism".
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demonize law enforcement, praise criminals
One more example of naming something that is more at home in a dictatorial or communist regime than in a free and democratic society. Thank goodness the US is allowed to criticize law enforcement (especially valid criticism). That law enforcement has been given such an unhealthy air of " not being allowed to criticize" is something that is very very bad and again, more at home in dictatorial/communist regimes.
And what you call demonizing law enforcement other people see as finally exposing an unhealthy way of enforcing the law and trying to correct it. Shooting innocent people, semi executing other people who may not be a real threat, corruption, racism, illogical jail sentences, etc. etc. etc. is something that has to be discussed. That the right sees this as demonizing is more about their beatifying of law enforcement (ignoring all their flaws and behaviors) and demonizing the people who come in contact with the police than it is about demonizing/praising criminals.
Especially as I cannot remember a lot of criminals being praised.
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exploit trade unions to promote ideology of "equality" that can never be achieved
this is another example of the problems with unbridled capitalism than with communism. Trade unions can be a negative influence, but they do not need to be if both sides are realistic. France is a very bad example about how trade unions work, just like the UK was in the past. And the US also has a bad system of "trade unions" IMO. But I doubt that has to do with communism but with representing the members of a union.
The issue is that the companies have so much power that the gross enriching of the leadership goes fully at the expense of the people who earn that money in the company, aka the employees.
Unions try to get fair wages, not equality as that is impossible to achieve as a trade union. No trade union normally wants equality, but fair wages and fair pay increases if there is room for this in a company. Because if the CEO gives himself and 100 million pay increase/bonus and then demands that 10% of the staff is being fired or employees are not getting a pay increase, well then trade unions are there to protect the employees. That is not communism that is a sense of comradery and standing up for fairness and rights.