Communism and socialism were pretty popular at one point, so was slavery, jim crow, and eugenics. What is your point? In the US, those are fringe movements now. You just fall for the line that Dems and progressives are still secretly Stalin worshipping socialists. You probably believed every lie Limbaugh fed you about Obama being a gay, kenyan, communist, muslim writing checks to the brotherhood to set up a Muslim invasion, instate FEMA death camps, create healthcare death panels, force everyone to get gay married, take over Texas, take a 4th term, run the UN, create ISIS, force abortions, destroy Israel, take all our guns, instate sharia law, wreck the economy blah blah blah.