It wasn't about McCarthy, it was a simple fix to try to prevent further revolutions in Latin America. By doing so, he tried to force a point between the enforced atheism of the Soviets and the open religion of the Americans to the heavily Catholic Latin America.
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sometimes i think the tea party is merely a giant paranoid reaction to the scale of globalized capitalism, from which can follow a sense of being-erased as a person or a sense that the framework within which one had operated is being dissolved. and thanks to the giant passivity generating machine that is american edutainment, these folk can't relativize their own position. so they panic. and then there are very wealthy individuals committed to the politics of being narcissistic assholes who are willing to spend vast sums of money directing this panic this way and that.
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I disagree. I believe as you do this is a reaction to the massive shifts caused by globalization, but I also believe it's a bit more.
The older generation is finding their children without jobs, their pensions long gone and their 401k's losing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and are forced (or have friends that are) to work at Walmart because no other company will hire retirement age workers. They are nostalgically looking back to when they remember times being different (i.e. '50s) and desperately want that back. Unfortunately they have collective amnesia and don't realize that when they were young their parents paid MUCH higher taxes, which paid for all the nice parks/pools/schools/etc that they remember. It was also after WWII when international competition was 0 and very strong tariffs kept manufacturing jobs in country.
This collective anger is being redirected by a few really rich people with really bad ideas... and it's not being pointed out by the media unfortunately.