McCarthy-ism: Is it back?

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This is a comment I wrote in response to the above video but more directly to another commenter's misunderstanding of our system of government. It does work for the likes of the Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Keyes, Agar and Rep. Michelle Bachmann(R)MN. This is the time for a few Edward R. Murrows, I hope to be counted as one.
You obviously have no idea about the political spectrum, of economic concepts like socialism, fascism, communism or capitalism, or the social sciences. So please, do us all a favor and sit quietly, long enough to learn. The Republican party is the closest thing to fascism (a right wing nationalist movement) this country has endured, but mainly by the shared ideology of a government supported and protected industrial complex. As a side note, the National Socialist Party (Nazism) was: a) more Fascist than Socialist and b) born of Glenn Beck style fear mongering, as well as, hatred of diverse social groups, through the bigotry of exclusionary organizations (i.e. religious or patriotic). This is, in fact, the actual danger in the U.S., at present. And, as it usually does, coming from the back side of the Magicians hand, will catch this country unaware. Ask any German if they seen it coming.
As for Socialism, systems like education, highways, Medicaid and Medicare are perfectly in line with a Democratic Republic, remember the Roman roads of our model system. It is what a community does, the very reason for civilization is to pool our resources for the greater good. Consequently, the greedy among us have, and always will, complain at the top of their lungs, even though, they reap the greatest benefit. Where would our business and industry be without the educational or highway systems of this great country. Our social systems are what make this country as great as it is.
Communism as contrasted with capitalism as best as it can be explained are polar opposites in the private property ownership category in addition to the economic systems above. So it is obvious that it would take sizable upheaval of our political and economic system to bring that much change, no one man or party could do it. Not only that, but the rich and powerful would be the last to want that type of system. Communism will come from a workers rebellion for economic equality, the last thing the current power mongers would want. As for the Czar scare the Beckerheads are pushing at present, that comes from an Imperial Russia, not a Communist Russia.
Greedy men used to making millions of dollars individually, billions annually, collectively are adept at getting their way by paying professionals to stir emotions of people that already feel left out. Don't let them use your emotions against you, think for yourself, or think of your family. To "get our country back" is to take it back from big financial institutions, not that individual who constitutes only one estate of three that make up this countries government. And to weaken those institutions we need to stop feeding them, which is what the public option will do. This is in no uncertain terms, why, the insurance industry is pushing so hard for President Obama's "Waterloo". And why Beck, Rush, Savage et al. are being fed the scripts to parrot, that they are in turn, spewing across the air waves at us. Money!
One more point I would like to make, if a societal cataclysm is to overcome this country in the form of an ideological overthrow or political coup, it will come wrapped in our flag and carrying the Bible. Spouting patriotic slogans and inspirational sound bites.

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