>"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}
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>Sort of like "Socialism"???????????????
Actually, yes. Very little proposed seriously by the 'left' in this country would be recognized as socialism in really socialist countries. (as Dragan while quickly confirm) I'm also not fond of 'racism' and 'treason' except in truly appropriate context.
But fascist and fascism is particularly misused and I think really unwittingly by people who really don't know what it means. The word "progressive" is equally tricky if one knows anything of Wilson's people and the US in the first two decades of the last century.
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
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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.
