Anons:
It is not uncommon in NYC to run into genuine, card-carrying communists. I'm not talking about the Zuccottii Park Kids, or people wearing Antifa kits. I'm talking about every day people in the workplace.
"Card-carrying" is obviously a figure of speech, meaning, "true beleivers, active members and supporters." People nearer to the inside than most.
I believe I know several, and they have all frozen me out hard. These people are circling the wagons. This is real. A couple are well regarded musicians; another is my boss, who has recently become openly and irrationally hostile towards me at work.
All to say that this is real; it's age-old, it's been an active battle in the US since the Bolshevik Revolution.
It is real.
Godspeed.