>>496028https://www.cpusa.org/article/five-myths-about-the-cpusa/2. “CPUSA endorses Democrats.”
We do not, nor have we ever, endorsed candidates who are not members of our Party. Instead, we run our own candidates at the state and local levels and plan to run presidential candidates in the future. We also emphasize the importance of uniting, organizing, and radicalizing workers around the issues and not around Democratic Party candidates. This, again, is a lie rooted in the McCarthy era when the Republicans tried to depict the Democratic Party and the Roosevelt administration as having “communist influence.” We never endorsed Democrats, even during the Great Depression and World War II. In fact, despite our support for many aspects of the New Deal, particularly the Social Security and Wagner Acts, we were running our own candidates for president against Roosevelt.
More recently, our comrades in Cuba published an article by Ricardo Alarcon, a politburo member of their ruling Communist Party and head of their National Assembly, in which he explained how a Clinton presidency would have been more beneficial than a Trump presidency. This article was posted to our website to educate readers about how there are differences between the DNC and GOP (for example, Obama loosened the imperialist grip on Cuba), despite their both being corporate parties. Some opportunistically spread the word that it was an endorsement of the Democrats, which it was not—by us nor the Cubans. We support ideas and policies over individual candidates. Medicare For All is a contemporary idea that we support, although we never endorsed Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Ilhan Omar, for example, no matter how progressive or “left” they may seem. We are not in a strategic alliance with the Democratic Party. Imagine what Nancy Pelosi’s answer would be if you asked her that!