Posted on 02/11/2023 6:29:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
“The Democratic Party [is] the bedfellow of international communism.” Those words from Sen. Joe McCarthy captured the gist of the Red Scare and the use of blacklists and personal attacks to silence critics. The Democrats this week appear to have taken up the same cudgel in labeling opponents and critics Russian sympathizers and fellow travelers in opposing government involvement in a massive censorship system.
The Red Scare is back and it is going blue.
I testified this week in Congress on the Twitter Files and how they suggest what I have called “censorship by surrogate” or proxy.
The files show dozens of FBI and government employees actively seeking the censorship of citizens and others for their viewpoints. In my testimony, I warned that this was reminiscent of the McCarthy period where the FBI played a role in the establishment of blacklists for socialist, communists, and others. I encouraged Congress not to repeat its failures from the 1950s by turning a blind eye to such abuse.
This view was amplified by former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who became persona non grata for her anti-war sentiments in Congress. She was later labeled a “Russian asset” by Hillary Clinton, who has refused to support that scurrilous claim of a former member.
For years, the Democrats pushed a Russian collusion theory that collapsed. It was later disclosed that the Clinton campaign hid and then lied about funding the infamous Steele Dossier. Nevertheless, people like Carter Page were falsely accused of being Russian agents and critics labeled as Russian apologists. Ironically, the FBI was warned that the dossier appeared to be the result of Russian disinformation and relied on a presumed Russian agent.
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The democRATs and the government agencies seem to be on a far left trajectory. I am waiting to see if the pendulum will start to swing the other direction, but I am not seeing it.
FWIW, I’m still banned on Twitter.
I wonder how many other conservatives still are...
McCarthy has been proven right on all counts.
We need ANOTHER “RED SCARE.”
It’s all of social media, and you have to go after the people in the FBI too. T
I was thinking the same thing. McCarthyism has aged well, we are obviously infiltrated by commies at all levels.
This was a false equivalency the Red Scare was justified the censorship is not.
The Democratic Party is the bedfellow of international communism. Sen. McCarthy was right.
Agree look at all the changes for the worst in America alone in the last two years.
The 'Rat party censorship is further proof that McCarthy was right.
TOTALLY agree. The communist infiltration that McCarthy investigated is EXACTLY the same as the marxist censorship today. Both were accurate and both have the goal of eliminating individual liberty and freedom. The only thing that prevents "turnabout is fair play" justice resulting in 100M to 200M leftists in mass graves is that conservatives don't behave like leftists.
Marxism is the religion of narcissism and ignorance. We have plenty of both in the nation right now.
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