"Proverbs for paranoids 3, if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" - Gravity's Rainbow
When Norman Podhoretz refers to the President of the United States as a "genuine product of the political culture...of leftists in the early 1960s" you can, immedietly, safely assume that the gentleman is no longer attempting to accurately describe American history (see: Historical Revisionism and denial). It is a common conservative GOP, Tea Party Fundamentalist approach to slandering Mr. President and his political party collectively. The conservative idea is to label every opponent "Red", I know this seems almost an anachronism considering every presidential election shows an electoral map half painted red for the very same conservatives.
The McArthy hysteria is another chapter in American history in which mob rule, unjustly determines the direction of American political discourse. Slavery, the Jim Crow era, and the ever growing anti-Civil Rights sentiment that has pervaded the GOP and the Republican party; respectively, are examples of putsch(es) on the part of a radical minority at every stage of the United States development.
It then, should come as no surprise to further read the emotional rantings of Podhoretz as he declares the spread of "communist ancestors" ideology of the 1930's infiltrating "metastatically to the universities, the mainstream media, the mainline churches, and the entertainment industry." These words are the act of fear-mongering, trumping charges of treason towards our nations commander-in-chief. A consistent patter in the American social fabric, that of the Radical Right fabricating and distorting the truth in order to undermine the strength and function of our United States national government.
When does the True Red Scare unfold? When does the day occur when America opens its eyes to the dastardly intentions of the Red, conservative GOP, and Tea Party Fundamentalist? When does the hour strike, when the American electorate says "good bye" to the corporate sponsored, conservative status quo completely out of touch with its nations rapidly evolving demographic? I say that day has already arrived, and that the clock rang loud and clear on January 20th, 2009. We voted for change and prosperity, progress and humanity in 2009. Now we must continue this pursuit of truth for the sake of our past and future generations in 2012.
In all fairness, to better understand the conservative ideology of Mcarthyism read "Blacklisted By History" about Sen. Mcarthy, Ann Coulter is on the cover stating the book is the biggest thing since the bible. Again, the conservative GOP and Tea Party Fundamentalism that is at the forefront of the 2012 elections and at the heart of our congressional stymie, stands as the True Red Scare.
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