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“I do not lose any sleep over Dalton Trumbo’s past as a Communist screenwriter.”

I don’t lose any sleep over him as a screenwriter. He beats the pants
off 99% of the dreadful drivel from Hollywood.

But I did think he was an Exhibit A about the Communists in America that
sometimes showed their real allegiance was to Communism/USSR.

And I say this with understanding that when The Great Depression was
going strong, flirting with Communism as an alternative to capitalism
wasn’t such a wild idea.

The first time I heard about Trumbo “Naming names” to the FBI...
that was just too rich to not be noted in the historical records.
I guess he hoped the “useful idiots” at the FBI would put the smack-down
on all the people he named...even if most were probably just pacifists...
not Fascist agents.
This would be the same guy that would curse other people that
“named names” either due to patriotism to the USA or court order.

And to have Trumbo’s memorial fountain at the U. of Colorado in
the People’s Republic of Boulder and (until recently?) the home of Ward Churchill...
“they couldn’t make this stuff up in Hollywood”.