The Rot began with the insinuation of outright communists and hardline Socialists into the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration at the highest levels. FDR had a Commie sitting next to him at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 - and it wasn’t Iosif Stalin or Winston Churchill!
Small wonder the Allies conceded so much and received so little. The actual agreement was primarily drafted by Andrei Gromyko (future Soviet leader) and Alger Hiss (then-closeted communist traitor to America), and Sir Gladwyn Jebb.
FDR actually died in April, 1945 and had been in failing health well beforehand, so he was more than weak, malleable to Stalin and easily vulnerable to the unctuous, Wormtongue-like counsels of Hiss.
There was a backlash of vitriolic hatred amongst the Socialist and Communist ranks in the USA, following on the heels of “TailGunner Joe” McCarthy and the HCUA {House Committee on UnAmerican Activities} pursuit of infiltrators.
Richard M. Nixon was at the microphone applying the heat during the hearings which exposed Hiss. This “gotcha” singularly enraged the Reds, and they never forgot nor forgave.
They burrowed underground, taking refuge in tenured positions at Universities, teaching Social Studies at public schools, twisting, mis-educating and perverting young minds, and recruiting agitators, foot soldiers, and cell leaders for the next generation from amongst them...
The rot began as a result of our patriots of the 1950s being shamed by the already-compromised media,and powerful sympathisers in the house and senate (masquerading as advocates for “moderation and decency”) into not vigorously pursuing the Reds down their rat holes, grabbing them by the throats and roughly dragging them into daylight for scrutiny.
Allowing any of them to live, and/or move about freely in American society was tantamount to allowing them to spread the pandemic putridity of their foul political philosophy.
ALl their leading personalities should have been found, indicted,detained, tried and made public examples of...either imprisoned until they were in their sixties, or executed for treason and conspiracy.
That would have been a suitable object lesson - and one which might have been the “ounce of prevention” to have prevented the widespread protest marches, sit-ins, radical bombings, student riots, Black Panther movement, etc...that evidenced the aboveground “bursting forth” of the societal rot that is Socialism/Communism in any and every form.
Well, that’s how the AmericanArchConservative sees it anyway!
A.A.C.
thanks, very informative. Just old marxism with new money from the islamofascists.