I'm not saying that McCarthyism didn't work.
It did find spies, just as the Anti-Terrorist laws are finding Terrorists.
But it's having the side effect of shunning a large part of the population (Free thinkers, Scientists, Artist, Actors etc in the case of McCarthyism, and Muslims, and anyone non-Christian in this case).
To say that "Hippies are ruining the country" is rather bland. The hippy movement branched out in many ways, including into Environmentalism, from which we wouldn't have had people willing to spearhead planet-saving green movements for little or no reward.
On the flip-side you can easily say that Republicans are ruining the country and just point to George W Bush, despite the fact that he was re-elected and his tenure as president did have some positive benifits. (like making it profitable to jump on environmentalism)
Blaming one thing for ruining a country is the flimsiest straw man ever. Except maybe saying that something is the flimsiest straw man ever.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 11:49, Share, Reply)