>>489491There's a difference between having solidarity with the politically backwards, and building your entire party platform around appealing to them and only them, especially when, as I said in
>>489474, they're in the minority in the US.
I am more than willing to work with someone who has social views that are vastly different from mine (which are socially "centrist"!, for what it's worth), no matter where they sit on the political spectrum. I am not, however, willing to work with people who constantly feel the need to remind me of those views, because it tells me that they value those views more than they do communism for its own sake, and will abandon the cause as soon as they get a better offer.
Beyond that, a lot of what the ACP does, at least to me, looks like people trying to emulate the revolutionary tactics of Lenin and to a lesser extent Mao without understanding the context in which they did what they did. Tsarist Russia was an underdeveloped, largely feudal society, so logically the values of the Russian public prior to the revolution were going to reflect that. The United States, on the other hand, is a highly-developed neoliberal capitalist society, with the social values that come with it instead. Trying to appeal to the hardcore Christian Conservative segment of the population isn't going to get you very far because they aren't the majority here anymore, and have become less and less the majority with each passing decade.