The return of McCarthyism? |
Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse for our neighbour to the south of us, you find they can. And are.
Tired of watching the war, I turned the other day to the most recent posting from the The Atlantic magazine and an excellent article by staff writer, Ali Breland. To say the article brought me no comfort is an understatement. Breland’s subject was the return of McCarthyism to the United States.
For the uninitiated, McCarthyism refers to a period when Joseph McCarthy, a failing junior senator from Wisconsin, decided to attempt to secure his shaky political future by finding communists under every bed, in every public office, in every classroom, in every movie studio, on every news outlet in America.
It was the late 1940s and ‘50s, the Cold War period, and his witch hunt had a lot of appeal to the many who feared the Soviet Union. Lives were ruined........