It might be the conservative mythos that capitalism = freedom and that capitalism and communism are exact opposites, so that no-freedom = communist.
The mid-century Ayn Randian individual vs. collective schema lingers still. How someone who attended high school in 2010, and also cares to read, still hasn't reasoned his way out of that remedial economic/moral view is sort of concerning.
It might be the conservative mythos that capitalism = freedom and that capitalism and communism are exact opposites, so that no-freedom = communist.
The mid-century Ayn Randian individual vs. collective schema lingers still. How someone who attended high school in 2010, and also cares to read, still hasn't reasoned his way out of that remedial economic/moral view is sort of concerning.