#redbaiting

[azspot]

The simplistic, kindergarten version of red-baiting that has functioned effectively in American politics since the McCarthy era is beginning to die out along with those who swore their political allegiance to it.

Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

[azspot]

he idea behind red-baiting has always been that there’s something inherently foreign to the US about the left – that despite the longtime presence of socialism in America it’s some toxic import, whether from the Soviet Union or elsewhere. And the CIA and FBI have spared no expense in violently suppressing socialists at home and abroad, from the killing of the Black Panther party’s Fred Hampton in Chicago to the overthrow of the democratically elected leftwing government of Chile’s Salvador Allende.

America's red scare is back. And it's racially tinged

[azspot]

It would not be hard at all to make higher education completely free in the USA. It accounts for not quite 2% of GDP. The personal share, about 1% of GDP, is a third of the income of the richest 10,000 households in the U.S., or three months of Pentagon spending. It’s less than four months of what we waste on administrative costs by not having a single-payer health care finance system. But introduce such a proposal into an election campaign and you would be regarded as suicidally insane.

The Liberal Redbaiting of Bernie

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Liberal redbaiting

[large-hard0n-collider]

Tip to reactionaries: Red-baiting won't work if your audience is overwhelmingly under 30.

[jellobiafrasays]

you can trust the communists (to be communists) (christian anti-communism crusade, 1972 ed.)