Before anyone says this is America let's think about it seriously.
So far I think its because economic collapse caused the germans to follow Hitler. And starvation caused people to follow Mao. Their government was effectively useless.
People think it happened because Hitler and Mao forced them at gun point. But I find that hard to believe. I think that it's both institutional and economic failure that caused these tyrants to rise.
Antifa riots. Loots, and kills but people feel the best solution is not to capitulate. It's to vote them out. Hence why the GOP has a shot in Oregon according recent data.
If that is the case then a communist revolution cant be forced on the american people unless our institutions are collapsed. Or our economy in a deep depression. The covid recession does not fit the bill. Also there is not leadership in Antifa that people can identify like Mao and Hitler.
Hunger.
The common thread through all communist revolutions is hunger. Just before the end, the Weimer Republic actually instituted food rationing. The concept of "no private property" only sounds appealing to normal people when they already have no private property.
The whole, "give the slaves guns and they'll kill their masters" plan doesn't work when the "slaves" are getting $12:50 an hour plus tips, plus SNAP, plus WIC, plus MEDICAID, plus free daycare, plus free school breakfast and lunch...
Even the poorest Americans are far to comfortable to find the idea of risking their lives in a revolution appealing. There's not going to be any "civil war". Just a bunch of larping criminals that are actually professional college students that will stop the instant the dem local politicians stop letting them get away with it.
Great response.