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ArticleISection10 39 points ago +40 / -1

McCarthyism 2.0 will be a big job

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Grief 16 points ago +19 / -3

Except this time they will all labeled themselves and we have a voter list to pull from for identification.

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BeefyBelisarius 18 points ago +19 / -1

And this time, we need to start with the media, who stopped McCarthy last time. Then purge the schools and the federal beaurocracy.

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JohnBrownsBody 13 points ago +14 / -1

They never finished the first. Hollywood is testament to it.

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chowdah 6 points ago +7 / -1

Yep. They made McCarthy out to be the bad guy in school... if only we knew.

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chowdah 6 points ago +7 / -1

I'll have to look that up, didn't see that episode! But, ya, I agree 100%. It's absurd the level of hate and fear they level towards him. And - surprise surprise - years after the fact when shit was declassified (the Venona project iirc) it turns out he was right. It makes me so mad.

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JohnBrownsBody 5 points ago +5 / -0

Most history books and textbooks published for schools today are all under subsidiaries of big publishers. The big 3 networks were founded around the same time as the hearings. It wouldn't be difficult to paint this that way all throughout history.

Even today, listening to how Nixon talked about the Communist influence in media. And the inaction on Obama and Bush's treasonous actions, I can't help but wonder if we ever got the real story on Watergate.

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Train_w_no_brakes 5 points ago +6 / -1

Sign me up Mr. president. I will clean out the deep state for you in a month.