I'm surprised that you have no clue about him. Dubya had a lot of failings, but he didn't have an unlikable personality, especially compared to our DIC (Despot in Chief).
I was a kid when he was president so I didn't really pay attention to politics.
Then how the hell have you drank so much McCarthy Kool-Aid?
I realized socialism and communism are not tenable when I looked at the evidence. Growing up in the Romanian community, I heard a lot about how commies turned most of eastern Europe into the third world. So I was curious and did some research.
You ever read an economics book or take a political science class? Because I don't think you have enough info if that's the conclusion you've reached. That said, I can completely understand your aversion to it if you're Romanian, but I think you should be averse to central-planned economies and totalitarianism.
To be fair, pulling off Communism without central planning would be like pulling off a moon landing without a knowledge of basic physics. ---