The Red Scare Returns
Today, from the floor of town-hall meetings and the heights of the Republican Party, alarmed Americans fret about secret socialists and denounce the president as a dictator. They make plans to pull their children out of school rather than have them exposed to his hypnotic oratorical powers. They quail at imaginary death panels, storm at imaginary threats to gun rights, and froth at an imaginary birth-certificate scandal. And it has required only eight ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via AllTop, Opinion Source, Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
There is a stark contrast to American thought since the election of Obama and many democrats. For some reason in this country it seems that the right can can make an issue out false allegations about fellow Americans by calling others commies, reds, socialists, Nazis. When a democrat get elected to the White House the sales of guns goes way up and people start believing they will lose some of their rights and privileges. Instead what really happens is when the right goes too far is when we actually do lose some rights and privileges. This is evidences by McCarthyism and portions of the Patriot Bill. I have often wondered why these people believe far flung idea without any evidence to back up their beliefs.