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I think it's extremely significant that the agent in McCarthyism was the Federal government, and that is what made it such a dangerous phenomenon. Not just for

I think it's extremely significant that the agent in McCarthyism was the Federal government, and that is what made it such a dangerous phenomenon. Not just for the people directly affected, but indirectly due to purges in the State Department, chilling effects on the civil service, and encouragement to demagogues for decades thereafter. I understand the analogies in principle, but they leave out this key distinction.

talmand 11y ago
Who cares who the agent is if the outcome is the same?
- tptacek 11y ago
  He just tried to explain how the outcomes aren't the same.
  - talmand 11y ago
    Well, I'm starting the to see the beginnings of the same things. Different departments, different areas true. But it's the same.