Questions about the voting system in USA

[Occhidiangela]

I seem to remember (not sure) that at the beginning of the 19th century the US had a larger communist movement than russia.

Communism did not evolve until the mid 19th century, from Marx and Engels of course, and was not put into place very effectively until Lenin and his associates put their stamp on it and tried their best to make it work.

The Paris Commune of 1871 could, I suppose, be considered an early attempt to apply Communism, but this is where I start to see the Socialism and Communism models start to gel in separate molds. A variety of Socialist models have more or less worked, while Communist models seem to be as parasitic on their countries as unfettered Capitalism was in the 19th century.

As to a poor leftist ever getting to the White House: there aint no such thing in America. The real American leftists tend to be pretty well off. :o The support for the Left in our Labor Unions seems to have changed shape over the past 30 years, I am not sure how that will play out in the long run. To argue that Labor has had less of a vote in recent American elections might be true.