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Originally Posted by Leto
exchange "terrorist" for "Communist" and you have deja-vu of McCarthyism. Upto this point in history, everybody looked back on the McCarthy era with a knowing smirk, and thought that they were so easily mislead back then. That it could never happen again.
Well, people have short memories, and are doomed to repeat that little bit of history.
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Why do you think Anne Coulter and Limbaugh and O'Reilly keep saying "McCarthy wasn't that bad, that he was just misunderstood and the liberal media has made more of it than there truly was"?
I don't think it's short memories, I think that the powers that be saw how easily led the Baby Boomers were, how follow the leader and manipulated they were and played it against us.
And the Reagan years proved that people cared more about the money and toys then they did with where the country was headed politically and where our rights were concerned. They learned if you have people in debt and fearful of losing their jobs they are more apt to be quiet and not raise a fuss, for fear of losing everything.
So now when rights are taken away, or 9/11's happen, or we see massive scandals...... yeah there maybe some people who try to open eyes but noone truly stands up because I believe we are scared not only of what we may lose financially and such, but we are scared to see the truth and what really is going on. How bad off we truly are, how indebted we truly are and what the politicians and greedy fucks have truly sold and given away to line their own pockets.