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2na fisherman

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8. The New McCarthyism
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 07:47 PM
Oct 7

History is repeating itself. The "enemies lists" Joe McCarthy was fond of waving around were public smears of purported "communist sympathizers." People lost their jobs and suffered vicious attacks for being falsely associated with an opposing system of government. Now it's worse with the Trump regime inflaming half the country against the other as "antifa" which is the new boogeyman weasel-word taken to mean so-called terrorists. And todays smears are more damaging because of the internet where such fabrications go viral around the world before they can be debunked. And violent actions are more easily taken in a country awash with arms. But now we ask these new demagogues, "Have you no decency?" The answer is absolutely not.

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