>I'm hoping that, in the next 4 years, Americans can get over being told they have to be afraid of every dark shadow in the corner.
>I'm hoping that, in the next 4 years, we can finish off the second round of McCarthyism - otherwise known as the Patriot Act and the attitudes that accompany it.
I understand the use of hyperbole, but it is worth noting that the first paragraph is a strawman and the second hardly an apt or accurate historical comparison, whatever one thinks of either. "McCarthyism", like "fascism" has become a buzzword that most often reflects that the user intends it as code to elicit huzzahs from fellow believers rather than something rooted in actual history {s}
( I also think 'Patriot Act' was an absolutely terrible name for a piece of national security legislation )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
