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Originally Posted by ICU 812
Ummmm. . .never said it was perfict "back then" or in the hear and now.
Sen McCarthy attempted a social and political purge. Today we call that the "Cancil Culture". A black-list is still a black-list whatever you call it and whom ever it aims to exclude professionally. In the McCarthy era it was liberal Hollywood and other creative people, theater, music, literature and academia. Today these are the folks doing the black-listing.
In my own youth, the liberal left was the champion of our rights regarding the free and open expression of ideas. Entertainers such as Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and The Smothers Brothers could only book events on college campuses because they were forced to work "clean" and politically neutral on TV. Today, no comedien or political satirist would go to a college campus. Today they would be howled off stage and face physical threats. Think of the reception that would await Mark Twain or Will Rogers.
Heaven forbid some misguided fool should advocate not wearing a face mask today. . . .oops, Dr Faucci has done that. Now he is no fool, but was he miss-guided or misleading?
No, this is not the America my father fought for and hoped to leav us. It isn't even the America MLK dreamed about. Whatever their goals and intentions, the Revered Doctor King would not have advocated for or condoned the gopings on of this past summer.
The Democratic party once espoused the ideals JFK expressed when he said, " . . .ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country!" Today the mantra of the liberal left is, "What's in it for me?"
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Sounds to me like it has never been the country your father fought for...either one side or the other has tried to gain an advantage by mislabeling others for political gain.
Just look at oeb11 and his DPST nonstop rants. He sounds like a modern day McCarthyism.
