[chuck_the_tv_out]

“One totalitarian “-ism” is as bad as another”

Protecting your government from infiltration by people who want to destroy it is not totalitarianism.

I am sorry sir, but you have swallowed a leftist premise.

[gundog]

I'd suggest that the blowback from McCarthyism has done a great deal of damage. Every high school kid has had to suffer through Miller's The Crucible, and I don't recall anything being taught about the evils of communism.