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This is similar to my belief as to why modern American politics is the way it is. It's so much left vs right, red vs blue, etc. During the cold war, we had a c
by welcome_dragon 5y ago
This is similar to my belief as to why modern American politics is the way it is. It's so much left vs right, red vs blue, etc.
During the cold war, we had a common enemy in communism. Sure there were disagreements, arguments, fights, but at the end of the day, most everyone could agree that we had to stand up for America.
Now those common enemies aren't such a threat, so we look across the aisle for our enemy.
It used to be "we just have different visions for America but we all want to succeed" and now it's "OMG you are trampling my right to ___________ you Nazi!".
Your comment says all this much better than I ever could, though.
- 10000truths 5y ago> we had a common enemy in communism Communism wasn’t a “common enemy”, it was a boogeyman used as a cudgel by the government to strike down inconvenient dissent and ruin innocent peoples’ lives. There were plenty of Americans with Communist ideals, and plenty more who were branded as “communists” for suggesting such outrageous things as poverty reform or labor rights, including Martin Luther King Jr. See COINTELPRO and the Red Scare for examples of the government’s abhorrent treatment of suspected communists.
- alentist 5y agoThere were also real Communist agents. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg There were also real, devastating consequences to Communist ideology. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide for three examples.