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Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav
In the 50s there was a point where our country teetered on the brink of going socialist, then again in the mid to late 60s. The hysteria against it prevented it. It is better to be against this concept on the off chance it could lead to something as awful as the Nazis, but not at all the same.
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In the 50s?! err...
In the early 50s we were fighting Korea and Communism around the world. This trend continued througout the decade, and the country moved hard (really HARD) right in part due to the hysteria triggered by the McCarthy hearings.
McCarthy's accusations were nearly all wrong. There were some socialists/communists in government and the State Department, and some spies as well, but there was hardly any chance of the "country going socialist" so to speak.
Meanwhile, we were electing Eisenhower (a Republican) as President.
In other words, there was NO chance of us teetering into any kind of socialism in the 50s. In the mid-60s, there was, I'll agree with that.