26. F*cking Commies- McCarthy and the Red Scare
Sorry this came out late, for some reason it did not publish."History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"- Mark TwainIt seems to be a common ideology that anyone who identifies as "left" or "liberal" or "progressive" or audible gasp "democratic socialist" is "a f*cking commie"!!!! And that of course is bad.... but why? Why is that rhetoric so ingrained in American vernacular?In the wake of World War II, the tenuous "alliance" between the USSR and the USA disintegrated. With the entrance of nuclear arms, the ideological enemies and political superpowers fell immediately into the decades…
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