In your universe perhaps.
In mine, mentally dull, stupid people and small children are the only ones to conflate "human curiosity" with legal insanity or immature lack of impulse control.
No, it is a human universal to doubt what “the masses” say when there is no apparent objective support behind it and it exceeds reason. When McCarthy took it on himself to upbraid respected commentators based on past events they had long left behind, it exceeded reason, and he deserved the slap down.
You present a caricature of what I am saying, and you show it by the terminology you are using.
And so you are saying failing to oppose a fad makes people mentally sharp, smart, grown adults with legal sanity and mature sufficiency of impulse control in your universe?
I believe that proves mine is the one that is real.
The big problem with your “argument” (which isn’t argument, it’s jargon) is the same as the big problem with McCarthyism. It was a cheap, intellectually bankrupt short cut. Even if ostensibly for the right reasons.
The proper way to face claims that socialism is great is to ask questions about who is going to conduct it and how. This requires freedom to reason, and jargon and fad/ego/pride based attacks undercut that very freedom.