>>"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"???????????????
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>If I learned one thing during this campaign, it's that "socialism" is a code word for anti-black. In fact I learned there are many code words for it.
I personally was appalled that Obama was called a 'community organizer' {s}
Of course 'palling around with terrorists' was a little bit of a stretch as well ....
But I am surprised that no one made a big deal of John McCain spending more time in North Vietnam during the war than * Jane Fonda * !!
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.
